John Cade (1734–1806) was an English tradesman and antiquary. Retiring from business, he took up the study of Roman remains around

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, putting forward hypotheses of reconstruction of

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s, in particular, that were controversial.

Life

Cade was born in January 1734, at

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, where he was educated at

grammar school. Entering a wholesale linendraper's firm in London, he was promoted as head of the counting-house, and subsequently became a partner in a branch of the concern at

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. Cade retired from business, with an independent financial position. He died at Gainford 10 December 1806, and was buried at Darlington.

Works

Cade corresponded with Thomas Reynolds,

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and

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; but was strongly controverted by William Hutchinson. Not a member of the

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, he contributed papers to '' Archæologia'', their journal. These included: * ''Conjectures concerning some undescribed Roman Roads and other Antiquities in the County of Durham'', vii. 74, an attempt to trace

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in County Durham; * ''A Letter from Rev. Dr. Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland, to Mr. Cade'', vii. 82; * ''Conjectures on the name of the Roman Station Vinovium or Binchester'', ix. 276; and * ''Some Observations on the Roman Station of Cataractonium, with an account of the Antiquities in the neighbourhood of Piersbridge and Gainford; in a letter to Richard Gough, Esq.'', x. 54. Cade collected illustrations for a copy of

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's edition of

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's ''Britannia'', and supplied Gough with many corrections for his edition. He sent John Nichols ''Some Conjectures on the Formation of Peat-mosses in the mountainous parts of the Counties of Durham, Northumberland'', printed in the ''

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'', lix. 967.

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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Cade, John 1734 births 1806 deaths English businesspeople English antiquarians People from Darlington