| Code | PX280 |
| Dates | 1900-2001 |
| Person Name | Cave; Sir; Alexander James Edward (1900-2001); Professor; Anatomist |
| Surname | Cave |
| Forenames | Alexander James Edward |
| PreTitle | Sir |
| Title | Professor |
| Epithet | Anatomist |
| Activity | Sir Alexander James Edward Cave was an Anatomist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1959).
Cave received his education at Manchester High School. He attended Manchester University to study Medicine, graduating in 1923.
He was Senior Demonstrator and Lecturer in Anatomy at Leeds University until 1933, when he took the job of Curator of the Anatomical Museum at University College in London. In 1935, he was elected Assistant Conservator of the Hunterian Museum. He also became Arnott Demonstrator under Sir Arthur Keith. In 1940 he was appointed Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was responsible for the allocation of anatomical subjects to evacuated metropolitan medical schools. For more than two decades, he was Professor of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was also Examiner in Anatomy for London University, Cambridge University, and the Royal University of Malta. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was an examiner for the Conjoint and the Primary exams, the Wood Jones medallist in 1978, and from 1956 he was an Hunterian Trustee. He wrote extensively on comparative anatomy and palaeontology, particularly on the archaeological material in the Hunterian Museum. In 1948 he served as vice-president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1970 to 1973, vice-president and silver medallist of the Zoological Society of London and honorary associate of the British Museum (Natural History) from 1974. Elected to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Fellow in 1959, Cave was also granted lifetime membership to the Anatomical Society.
He was a staunch Roman Catholic and got involved in several attempts to authenticate church relics.
He died in London in 2001. |
| Relationships | Married 1. Dorothy Dimbleby 1926 (one daughter); 2. Catherine FitzGerald 1970
He married Dorothy May Dimbleby in 1926, by whom he had a daughter, Veronica. Dorothy predeceased him in 1961 and in 1970 he married for the second time, to Catherine Elizabeth Fitzgerald. His funeral Mass was celebrated by his grandson, Father Peter Madden. |
| Source | Wikipedia, accessed 29/1/14 |
| RefNo | Title | Source |
| DF/ZOO/238/4 | Cave, Alexander James Edward: Notes on the taxonomy of Mammalia | |
| DF/ZOO/200/136/3 | Cave, Professor A J E | |
| DF/ADM/1004/702/2 | Stranded Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) | |
| DF/PAL/100/94/17 | Cave, A J E Professor | |
| DF/ZOO/200/139/7 | Cave, Professor A J E | |
| DF/ZOO/200/153/14 | Cave, Professor A J E | |
| DF/PAL/141/118 | Report on Persian skulls T Burton Brown | |
| DF/ZOO/232/12/7/3 | Hayman, Robert William: Correspondence, 1961, C | |
| DF/ZOO/232/12/1/4 | Hayman, Robert William: Correspondence, C | |
| DF/PAL/141/141/9 | Human osteology reports volume 9: Site visits and finds, UK, Venezuela and The Alps | |
| DF/ZOO/238/5/109 | SF109 Stranded whale report 1938-1947 | |
| DF/ZOO/238/5/114 | SF114 Hearing in Cetaceans F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves | |
| DF/ZOO/238/5/186 | SF186 Royal College of Surgeons transfer of Type and other specimens | |
| DF/ZOO/239/4/2/3/41 | Cave, AJE: Government printer, Adeliade (GL 1946/69) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/3/2/4 | Cave, Prof AJE: Rhinoceros unicornis skeleton (GL 1945/17) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/3/4/17 | Hardy, Prof: Rhinoceros simus (GL 1947/93) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/4/1/27 | Cetacea correspondence 1935 | |
| DF/ZOO/239/1/45 | Cave, AJE: Rhino specs etc Fran RCS (GL 1950/105) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/1/47 | Cave, AJE: Caves assides (GL 1952/2) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/4/2/13/9 | Steven, DM: Mesoplodon skeleton (GL 1956/17) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/3/5/20 | Cave, Professor AJE: loan of Colobus specimen (GL 1948/120) | |
| DF/ZOO/239/1/46 | Cave, AJE: The Cave Collections (GL 1967/13) | |