Stephen Cave
British lawyer, writer and Conservative politician
Sir Stephen Cave
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The Rt Hon Stephen Cave MP as caricatured by Ape ( Carlo Pellegrini ) in Vanity Fair , October 1874 |
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Paymaster-General | |
In office
10 July 1866 – 1 December 1868 |
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Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister |
The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | William Monsell |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Dufferin |
In office
20 April 1874 – 21 April 1880 |
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Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | William Patrick Adam |
Succeeded by | Hon. David Plunket |
Vice-President of the Board of Trade | |
In office
10 July 1866 – 12 August 1867 |
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Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
Preceded by | William Monsell |
Succeeded by | Marcus Fysh (2020) |
Judge Advocate General | |
In office
7 March 1874 – 24 November 1875 |
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Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | Acton Smee Ayrton |
Succeeded by | George Cavendish-Bentinck |
Personal details | |
Born |
28 December 1820
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1820-12-28
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Clifton , near Bristol , England |
Died |
6 June 1880
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1880-06-07
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(aged
59)
Chambéry , Savoy (now France) |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Emma Smyth (d. 1905) |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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Sir Stephen Cave GCB PC JP DL FSA (28 December 1820 – 6 June 1880) was a British lawyer, writer and Conservative politician. He notably served as Paymaster-General between 1866 and 1868 and again between 1874 and 1880 and as Judge Advocate General between 1874 and 1875.
Background and education
Born at Clifton , Cave was the eldest son of Daniel Cave, of Cleve Hill, near Bristol (d. 9 March 1872), by his marriage on 15 April 1820 to Frances, only daughter of Henry Locock, MD , of London . The banker Sir Charles Cave, 1st Baronet , was his younger brother. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford , where he graduated BA in 1843 and MA in 1846. [1] [2]
Legal and political career
Being called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 20 November 1846, Cave started his career by going the western circuit. [1] On 29 April 1859 he entered parliament as Conservative Member of Parliament for New Shoreham , and retained this seat until 24 March 1880. [1] [2] He was sworn of the Privy Council on 10 July 1866, [1] [3] and served as Vice-President of the Board of Trade under the Earl of Derby between 1866 and 1867, when the office was abolished, and as Paymaster-General under Derby and then Benjamin Disraeli from 1866 until the fall of the Conservative government in December 1868. In 1866 he was appointed chief commissioner for negotiating a fishery convention in Paris . [1]
When the Conservatives returned to power under Disraeli in February 1874, Cave was appointed Judge Advocate General and Paymaster-General. He relinquished the former office in November 1875 but continued as Paymaster-General until 1880. In December 1875 he was sent on a special mission to Egypt by Benjamin Disraeli to report on the financial condition of that country together with John Stokes. [4] [5] He returned in March 1876. [1] On 20 March 1880 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) . [6]
Cave was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries , of the Zoological Society , and of other learned societies, chairman of the West India Committee, a director of the Bank of England and of the London Dock Company [1] and a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for Gloucestershire .
Family
Cave married Emma Jane, eldest daughter of the Reverend William Smyth of Elkington Hall, Lincolnshire , on 7 September 1852. They had no children. He died at Chambéry , Savoy , on 6 June 1880, aged 60. [1] Lady Cave died in November 1905.
Publications
- A Few Words on the Encouragement given to Slavery and the Slave Trade by recent Measures, and chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846 (1849).
- Prevention and Reformation the Duty of the State or of Individuals? With some account of a Reformatory Institution (1856).
- On the distinctive Principles of Punishment and Reformation (1857).
- Papers relating to Free Labour and the Slave Trade (1861). [1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1887). "Cave, Stephen" . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Cave, Sir Stephen" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource .
- ↑ "No. 23136" . The London Gazette . 11 July 1866. p. 3981.
- ↑ "CHAPTER Xll" . 28 May 2009. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009.
- ↑ Foretek, Nick (2023). "The Cave Mission of 1876 and Britain's Imperial Information Strategies" . Past & Present . doi : 10.1093/pastj/gtac045 . ISSN 0031-2746 .
- ↑ "No. 24825" . The London Gazette . 20 March 1880. p. 2189.
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Member of Parliament
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New Shoreham
1859–1880 With: Sir Charles Burrell, Bt 1859–1862 Sir Percy Burrell, Bt 1862–1876 Sir Walter Burrell, Bt 1876–1880 |
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