Cave-Browne-Cave Baronets

The Cave, later Cave-Browne, later Cave-Browne-Cave Baronetcy, of Stanford in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 30 June 1641 for Thomas Cave, a Royalist who fought in the English Civil War. His son, the second Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Coventry. His son, the third Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire. He married the Hon. Margaret, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh, and a descendant of Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye. Their elder son, the fourth Baronet, died unmarried in 1734 and the baronetcy devolved on his younger brother, who also sat as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire. His elder son, the sixth Baronet, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and High Sheriff of Leicestershire. His son, the seventh Baronet, sat briefly as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire but died childless at an early age. In 1839 the abeyance of the barony of Braye was terminated in favour of the sixth Baronet's only daughter, Sarah. She also inherited the family seat of Stanford Hall (see the Baron Braye for further history of this branch of the family). The seventh Baronet was succeeded by his uncle, the eighth Baronet. He was a clergyman. He was unmarried and on his death in 1810 the line of the third Baronet failed.

The late Baronet was succeeded by his second cousin, William Cave-Browne, the ninth Baronet. He was the son of John Cave-Browne (who in 1752 had assumed the additional surname of Browne by Act of Parliament), son of Roger Cave, eldest son of the second marriage of the second Baronet, by his wife Catherine, daughter of William Browne. In 1839 the ninth Baronet assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Cave. He was succeeded by his son, the tenth Baronet. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1844. His son, the eleventh Baronet, was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire. He was succeeded by his second but only surviving son, the twelfth Baronet. He was initially a soldier and fought in the Boxer Rebellion and First World War, but was later ordained. He died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin, the thirteenth Baronet. He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Ambrose Syned Cave-Browne-Cave, younger son of the tenth Baronet. The thirteenth Baronet was a Captain in the Royal Navy. He was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourteenth Baronet. He died in 1943 without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his nephew, the fifteenth Baronet. He was the son of Edward Lambert Cave-Browne-Cave, younger son of the aforementioned Ambrose Syned Cave-Browne-Cave. As of 2008 the title is held by the fifteenth Baronet's eldest son, the sixteenth Baronet, who succeeded in 1945.

Six other members of the family may also be mentioned. William Cave-Browne, grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Cave-Browne, younger brother of the ninth Baronet, was a Major-General in the Royal Engineers. His son John Raban Cave-Browne (1917-1989) was a Brigadier in the Royal Engineers. Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835-1924), third son of Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave, third son of the ninth Baronet, was Deputy Accountant-General of the Army from 1897 to 1900 and Commissioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1899 to 1923. His daughter Frances Cave-Browne-Cave was a mathematician, his eldest son Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave (1885-1969) was Professor of Engineering at University College, Southampton, from 1931 to 1950 and Director of Camouflage at the Ministry of Home Security from 1941 to 1945 while his youngest son Henry Meyrick Cave-Browne-Cave (1887-1965) was an Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force.

Cave, later Cave-Browne, later Cave-Browne-Cave Baronets, of Stanford (1641)

• Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet (c. 1622–c.1671)
• Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet (1655–1703)
• Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet (1681–1719)
• Sir Verney Cave, 4th Baronet (1705–1734)
• Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet (1712–1778)
• Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Baronet (1737–1780)
• Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet (1766–1792)
• Sir Charles Cave, 8th Baronet (c. 1747–1810)
• Sir William Cave-Browne-Cave, 9th Baronet (1765–1838)
• Sir John Robert Cave-Browne-Cave, 10th Baronet (1798–1855)
• Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave, 11th Baronet (1822–1907)
• Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, 12th Baronet (1869–1929)
• Sir Reginald Ambrose Cave-Browne-Cave, 13th Baronet (1860–1930)
• Sir Rowland Henry Cave-Browne-Cave, 14th Baronet (1865–1943)
• Sir Clement Charles Cave-Browne-Cave, 15th Baronet (1896–1945)
• Sir Robert Cave-Browne-Cave, 16th Baronet (b. 1929)

The Heir Apparent is the present holder's son John Robert Charles Cave-Browne-Cave (b. 1957)

See also

• Baron Braye
• Stanford Hall

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• www.thepeerage.com