Roger Cave

{{Short description|English politician and baronet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet''' (21 September 1655 – 11 October 1703)<ref name = Rayment>{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224819/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm | archive-date = 1 May 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment - Baronetage | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 22 April 2009 }}</ref> was an English politician and baronet.

==Life== Roger Cave was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet and his second wife Hon. Penelope Wenman, daughter of Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman.<ref name = Kimber>{{cite book | last = Kimber | first = Edward | authorlink = Edward Kimber | publisher = Thomas Wotton | editor = Richard Johnson | title = The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets | volume = I | year = 1771 | location = London | pages = 364 }}</ref> In 1671, he succeeded his father as baronet and had Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, built on the site of the old manor house.<ref name="Rayment" /> He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{acad|id=CV671R|name=Cave, Sir Roger, Bart}}</ref>

Cave was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1679–80<ref name = thePeerage/> and then Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry from 1685 until 1690.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons6.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080928062603/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons6.htm | archive-date = 28 September 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Coventry | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 22 April 2009 }}</ref>

On 26 March 1676, Cave married firstly Martha Browne, daughter of John Browne,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.portcullis.parliament.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27BRY%27) | title = United Kingdom Parliament, Official Website - Archives | accessdate = 22 April 2009 }}</ref> and then secondly Mary Bromley, daughter of Sir William Bromley.<ref name = thePeerage>{{cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p12653.htm#i126522 | title= ThePeerage - Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt | accessdate= 9 January 2009}}</ref> He had five sons and two daughters by his first wife and a son and two daughters by his second wife.<ref name = Kimber/> Cave died in 1703 and was succeeded by his oldest son Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet.<ref>{{cite book | last = Collins | first = Arthur | publisher = Thomas Wotton | editor = Richard Johnson | title = The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets | volume = IL | year = 1741 | location = London | pages = 178 }}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|2}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{s-bef| before = John Stratford <br/> Richard Hopkins }} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Coventry | with = Sir Thomas Norton 1685–1689 | with2 = John Stratford 1689–1690 | years = 1685–1690 }} {{s-aft| after = Richard Hopkins <br/> John Stratford }}

{{s-reg|en-bt}} {{s-bef| before = Thomas Cave }} {{s-ttl| title = Baronet <br/>'''(of Stanford)''' | years = 1671–1703 }} {{s-aft| after = Thomas Cave }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cave, Sir Roger, 2nd Baronet}} Category:1655 births Category:1703 deaths Category:Cave-Browne-Cave baronets Category:High sheriffs of Northamptonshire Category:English MPs 1685–1687 Category:English MPs 1689–1690 Category:Members of Parliament for Coventry