Robert Otway-Cave (1796 – 29 November 1844), styled The Honourable from 1839, was an Irish aristocrat and British politician.

Life

Early life and succession

Born Robert Otway, he was the only surviving son of Henry Otway and his wife, the 3rd Baroness Braye, of

Castle Otway Castle Otway is a former 18th-century country house which stood on a hill on the outskirts of Templederry, near Nenagh in County Tipperary, Ireland. The house was built in stone up against the ruins of Cloghane Castle in two storeys with a 7-bay ...

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. His uncle was Sir Robert Otway, 1st Baronet, an admiral in the

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. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

and

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, matriculating in 1815. Otway succeeded his father in 1815, inheriting the family seat at Castle Otway. In 1818, he took by royal sign manual the additional surname of Cave, the maiden name of his mother, to whose title he was heir apparent.

Political career

Otway-Cave entered the British House of Commons in 1826, sitting for

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the next four years. In August 1832, he was elected for

Tipperary Tipperary is the name of: Places *County Tipperary, a county in Ireland **North Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Nenagh **South Tipperary, a former administrative county based in Clonmel *Tipperary (town), County Tipperary's na ...

, which he represented until December. He was again returned for the constituency in 1835, a seat he held until his death in 1844.

Personal life

On 23 October 1833, he married Sophia Burdett, the eldest daughter of

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was a British politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent (in advance of the Chartists) of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vo ...

. Otway-Cave died aged 48, after a short illness, at

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. He had no issue; he was laid to rest in a family tomb in St Nicholas Church, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire. Castle Otway passed, on his wife's death in 1849, to his cousin, Vice-Admiral Robert Jocelyn Otway. The barony passed into abeyance in 1862 on the death of his mother.

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* 1796 births 1844 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Heirs apparent who never acceded Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tipperary constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 People from Nenagh Committee members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub