Background
Baptised at Street Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Covent Garden, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet and his wife Honorary Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh.
Baptised at Street Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Covent Garden, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet and his wife Honorary Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh.
Cave was educated at Rugby School and then at Balliol College, Oxford.
Cave was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in the following year and he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1756. He was again successful in 1762 and represented the constituency until his withdrawal from politics in 1774, because of ill health. Cave died, aged 66 and was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire.
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Cave entered the British House of Commons in 1741, sitting as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Leicestershire until 1747.