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Cave, Viscount (UK, 1918 - 1928)

Creation: let.pat. 14 Nov 1918

Extinct: 29 Mar 1928

Family name: Cave

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Arms:

Or fretty Azure a Cross Moline within a Bordure nebuly Gules on a Chief of the last two Greyhounds' Heads erased Or

Crest:

A Greyhound sejant Or pelletée resting the dexter leg on a Cross Moline Gules

Motto:

 Cave Deus videt

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George [Cave], 1st Viscount Cave, GCMG PC

2nd son of Thomas Cave, of Queensbury House, Richmond, co. Surrey, by his wife Elizabeth Shallcrass, dau. of Jasper Shallcrass, of Banstead, co. Surrey

born

23 Feb 1856

mar.

6 Jan 1885 Anne Estella Sarah Penfold Mathews, suo jure Countess Cave of Richmond

died

s.p. 29 Mar 1928

created

14 Nov 1918 Viscount Cave, of Richmond in the County of Surrey

note

barrister, Inner Temple 1880; Chairman, Surrey Quarter Sessions 1894-1910; King's Counsel 1904; Recorder of Guildford 1904-15; Member of Parliament (Conservative) 1906-18; Member of the Royal Commission on Land Transfer 1908-09; Bencher 1912 and Master of the Bench 1913; Standing Counsel to the University of Oxford 1913-15; Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales 1914-15; Privy Councillor 1915; knighted 1915; Solicitor-General 1915-16; Secretary of State for Home Affairs 1916-19; Lord of Appeal 1919-22; Chairman of the Southern Rhodesian Commission 1919-20, of the Munitions Enquiry Tribunal and of the Committee on Voluntary Hospitals 1921, of the Committee on Trade Boards 1921-22, and of the Committee on Church Property Finance; GCMG 1921; Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1922-24 and 1924-28 ; Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Prisoners of War and the Home Office Advisory Committee on Cruelty to Animals Acts 1924; Chancellor of Oxford University and a Trustee of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research 1925-28; Counsellor of State 1925

On the death of the 1st Viscount Cave the Viscountcy of Cave became extinct. On the day of his death his advancement to an Earldom was announced, but the patent of creation had not passed the Great Seal. his widow was therefore granted by Letters Patent dated 8 May 1928 the dignity of a Countess of the United Kingdom by the name, style and title of Countess Cave of Richmond.

First written 5 Sep 2004

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