William Cave

Background

William Cave was born at Pickwell, Leicestershire on December 30, 1637.

Education

William Cave was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and successively held the livings of Islington (1662), of All-Hallows the Great, Thames Street, London (1679).

Career

Dr Cave was chaplain to Charles II, and in 1684 became a canon of Windsor. The two works on which his reputation principally rests are the Apostolici, or History of Apostles and Fathers in the first three centuries of the Church (1677), and Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Liter aria (1688). The best edition of the latter is the Clarendon Press, 1740-1743, which contains additions by the author and others. In both works he was drawn into controversy with Jean le Clerc, who was then writing his Bibliotheque universelle, and who accused him of partiality. He wrote several other works of the same nature which exhibit scholarly research and lucid arrangement.

Connections

William Cave married Anna Stonehouse. They had four sons, two daughters.

Father:

John Cave

Spouse:

Anna