Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet (6 October 1766 – 15 January 1792) was a British

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 politician.

The son of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Baronet and Sarah Edwards, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1780. Cave was educated at the Christ Church, Oxford

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, where he matriculated in 1785. From 1790 and 1792, he was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Leicestershire

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. He died, aged only 25 and was buried in Stanford in Northamptonshire

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 on 27 January 1792. He was succeeded by his younger brother Charles.

On 3 June 1791, he married Lucy Sherard, daughter of the 4th Earl of Harborough.