CAVE, GEORGE CAVE, 1ST VISCOUNT English lord chancellor, was born in London Feb. 23, 1856, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school, London, and St. John's college, Oxford. Called to the bar in 188o, he became K.C. in 1904. In 1906 he entered parliament as Conservative member for Kingston. In 1915 he became solicitor-general and was knight ed. On the formation of the first Coalition Government, in 1916, he was appointed home secretary. In 1918 he was appointed a lord of appeal in ordinary, and received a viscountcy. He sat more frequently at the privy council than in the House of Lords, often presiding over the judicial committee of the council, where he showed a great mastery of the intricate points of law, especially of those arising out of Indian appeals. Cave was lord chancellor in Baldwin's first and second Administrations of 1922 and As lord chancellor he displayed the reasonableness, the dignity and learning which had characterized him throughout his long career. But in his second term of office his health suffered and on March 27, 1928, he resigned. Next day his advance to an earldom was announced, but he died on the following day before the patent had been made out. His widow was created a countess in the May following.