# Lewis Cave

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{{Short description|British judge (1832–1897)}}
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[[File:Lewis Cave Vanity Fair 1893-12-07.jpg|thumb|right|{{center|"That won't do you know"<br />Cave as caricatured by Spy ([Leslie Ward](/source/Leslie_Ward)) in [Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)), December 1893}}]]
'''Sir Lewis William Cave''' (3 July 1832 –  7 September 1897) was a British judge on the [Queen's Bench](/source/Court_of_King's_Bench_(England)) during the reign of [Queen Victoria](/source/Queen_Victoria).

==Biography==
He was born in [Desborough](/source/Desborough), [Northamptonshire](/source/Northamptonshire), the eldest son of William Cave, a local landowner, and his wife, Elizabeth. After attending [Rugby School](/source/Rugby_School), he went to [Lincoln College, Oxford](/source/Lincoln_College%2C_Oxford), from where he graduated in 1855 with a degree in [humanities](/source/humanities).<ref name=odnb>Rigg, James McMullen (2004). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4923 "Cave, Sir Lewis William (1832–1897)"], revised by Hugh Mooney, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press. Accessed 15 July 2008.</ref>

Shortly after graduating, Cave started studying law, and married Julia Watkins, the daughter of the vicar of [Brixworth](/source/Brixworth) on 5 August 1856. Cave was called to the bar on 10 June 1859 and built up a large general practice in the [English Midlands](/source/English_Midlands).<ref name=odnb/>

In 1873 he was appointed Recorder of [Lincoln, Lincolnshire](/source/Lincoln%2C_Lincolnshire), and two years later became a [Queen's Counsel](/source/Queen's_Counsel). He edited several legal texts, including Stone's ''Practice of Petty Sessions'' (1861), ''Reports of the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved'', [Addison](/source/Charles_G._Addison)'s ''Treatise on the Law of Contracts'' (1869; 1875) and Addison's ''Law of Torts'' (1879).<ref name=odnb/>

Despite being well known in the Midlands, Cave was not well known in London. His appointment as a Justice of the Queen's Bench in 1881, and his coincident knighthood, came as something of a surprise.<ref name=odnb/>

As a judge, he gained a reputation as bluff and concise, often cutting short arguments which he considered too lengthy.<ref name=odnb/> However, at the major trial of the [poisoner](/source/Arsenic_poisoning) [Kate Dover](/source/Felicia_Dorothea_Kate_Dover) at [Leeds](/source/Leeds) Winter Assizes in 1882, his summing-up took one hour.<ref name="Sheffield Ind 8 Feb 1882" >{{cite news|title=The Sheffield poisoning case, the trial of Kate Dover, defence and verdict |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000181/18820208/003/0002 |via=British Newspaper Archive |newspaper=Sheffield Independent |date=8 February 1882 |page=2, col. 1 |access-date=13 July 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Commons category-inline|Lewis Cave}}

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Category:Members of the Inner Temple
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Category:Queen's Bench Division judges

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