Record

Code	PX280
Dates	1900-2001
Person Name	Cave; Alexander James Edward (1900-2001); Professor; Anatomist
Surname	Cave
Forenames	Alexander James Edward
Title	Professor
Epithet	Anatomist
Activity	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. He also became Arnott Demonstrator and Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. 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. Elected to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Fellow in 1959, Cave was also granted lifetime membership to the Anatomical Society. He served as president of the Linnean Society from 1970 to 1973. 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

Catalogue

RefNo	Title
DF/ZOO/234/58	Cave, A J E: loan of colobus monkey
DF/ZOO/234/49	Cave, A J E: on Rhinoceros simus
DF/ZOO/238/4	Cave, Alexander James Edward: Notes on the taxonomy of Mammalia
DF/ZOO/234/40	Cave, A J E: on Rhinoceros unicornis
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/PAL/141/118	Report on skulls from Azerbaijan collected by T Burton Brown, by A J E Cave
DF/ZOO/200/139/7	Cave, Professor A J E
DF/ZOO/200/153/14	Cave, Professor A J E
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

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