Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet

His grandfather had represented Leicestershire in the Parliament of 1741, before Cave was chosen in 1790, on the retirement of John Peach-Hungerford, on the same independent interest through the support of Lord Harborough, his future father-in-law.^[2] Cave made no mark in Parliament, where he supported Pitt, and was listed hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in April 1791.^[2]

On 3 June 1791, Sir Thomas was married to Lady Lucy Sherard (d. 1858), daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough and the former Jane Reeve, the daughter of his friend William Reeve of Melton Mowbray.^[3]

After a short illness, he died, aged only 25 on 15 January 1792. He was buried in Stanford on Avon in Northamptonshire on 27 January 1792. He was succeeded by his younger brother Charles. After his death, his widow remarried to the Hon. Philip Bouverie-Pusey (1746–1828), the eldest son of Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, by his second wife, the Hon. Elizabeth Marsham (eldest daughter of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney), in 1798.^[3]