- George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
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The Right Honourable
The Viscount Cave
GCMG KC PCLord High Chancellor of Great Britain In office
6 November 1924 – 28 March 1928Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Preceded by The Viscount Haldane Succeeded by The Lord Hailsham In office
24 October 1922 – 22 January 1924Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law
Stanley BaldwinPreceded by The Viscount Birkenhead Succeeded by The Viscount Haldane Home Secretary In office
11 December 1916 – 14 January 1919Prime Minister David Lloyd George Preceded by Herbert Samuel Succeeded by Edward Shortt Personal details Born 23 February 1856
LondonDied 29 March 1928 (aged 72)
St Anne's, Burnham-on-Sea, SomersetNationality British Political party Conservative Spouse(s) Anne Mathews, Countess Cave of Richmond (d. 1938) Alma mater St John's College, Oxford George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave GCMG, KC, PC (23 February 1856 – 29 March 1928) was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1916 to 1919 and served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928.
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Background and education
Cave was born in London, the son of Thomas Cave, Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jasper Shallcrass. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford. After being called to the bar in 1880, he practised as a barrister for a number of years, being made King's Counsel and recorder of Guildford in 1904.
Political career
In 1906 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Kingston Division of Surrey, and was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Land Purchase in 1908. Having served as standing Counsel to the University of Oxford for two years as well as Attorney General to the Prince of Wales, in 1915 Cave was appointed Solicitor General and knighted. The following year, he was made Home Secretary in Lloyd George's coalition government, a post he held for three years.
In 1918, Sir George Cave was ennobled as Viscount Cave, of Richmond in the County of Surrey. The following year, he became a Lord of Appeal, and chaired a number of commissions, including the Southern Rhodesian commission and the Munitions Enquiry Tribunal. In 1922, he became Lord Chancellor in Bonar Law's government, and again served in this capacity in Baldwin's first administration. Having been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in 1921, he was also elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1925, defeating former Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith.
Family
Lord Cave married Anne Estella Sarah Penfold Mathews, daughter of William Withey Mathews and sister of Sir Lloyd Mathews, in 1885. The marriage was childless. Cave died in March 1928, aged 72, at St Ann's, Burnham, Somerset, and was buried at Berrow in the same county. On the day of his death his resignation as Lord Chancellor had been accepted and it had been announced that he would be created an earl, and so his widow was created Countess Cave of Richmond. Having had no children, the viscountcy became extinct on Lord Cave's death, as did the earldom when his widow died in 1938.
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Cave
Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded by
Sir Thomas Skewes-CoxMember of Parliament for Kingston
1906–1918Succeeded by
John Gordon Drummond CampbellLegal offices Preceded by
Sir F.E. SmithSolicitor General
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Sir Gordon HewartPolitical offices Preceded by
Herbert SamuelHome Secretary
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Edward ShorttPreceded by
The Viscount BirkenheadLord Chancellor
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The Viscount HaldanePreceded by
The Viscount HaldaneLord Chancellor
1924–1928Succeeded by
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Marquess Curzon of KedlestonChancellor of the University of Oxford
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