Hugh Cave

We are very sad to announce that our Founder, long-time Chair and most recently, Society Patron, Hugh Cave, died on Saturday 9 December.

Hugh founded the Cave Family History Society over 40 years ago, and in the early years ran it almost single-handedly. Many members will recall personal encounters with Hugh through detailed handwritten letters and meeting up at annual Gatherings – family history as it used to be pre-computers, pre-internet and pre-DNA, all of which he embraced as they came along. Hugh continued to organise energetically and keep in close touch on overseas postings. In recent years, despite taking a back seat, he worked away in the background on Cave research and kept in touch by email and through our Zoom meetings, and has always been a huge part of the Society and a friend to many.

Hugh will be greatly missed by us all, most of all of course his family who have supported his passionate family history activities. He had a long and happy and interesting life and has written many accounts of his activities in our journal. We hope to revisit some of these in the near future in tribute to Hugh. If you have any memories of Hugh you would like to share, please get in touch.

There will be further tributes to Hugh in our next Journal, April 2024 and we hope to produce a one-off publication dedicated to Hugh and his interesting life.