Charles John Philip Cave


Captain Charles John Philip Cave FRAS, FSA was a meteorologist, a church architectural historian, and a captain in the Royal Engineers.
After education at The Oratory School in Edgbaston, Cave matriculated in 1889 and received a B.A. in 1893 and an M.A. in 1896 at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a J.P. for Hampshire in 1906. He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society in the years 1913 and 1914 and again in 1924 and 1925. In World War I he served as a captain in the Meteorological Section of the Royal Engineers. On January 11, 1918, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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