BRAYE 289 1561, at Sheffield, as his 2nd wife, Thomas (Wharton), Lord Wharton, who d. 23 Aug. 1568, at Henlaugh, and was bur. there. She d. 3 Feb. 1584, and was bur. with him. Will pr. 25 July 1585, at York. » X » » « « » III. 1839 3. Sarah Cave, da. of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart., of to Stanford Hall afsd., by Sarah, da. of John Edwards, of 1 862. London, Merchant, being only sister and h. of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart., (on whose death i./)., 15 Jan. 1792, she inherited the family estates) was b. 2 July, and bap. 4 Aug. 1768, at St. Marylebone. She w., 25 Feb. 1790, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Henry Otway, of Castle Otway, co. Tipperary, High Sheriff for co. Leicester 1 804, who d. 13 Sep. 1 815, and was bur. at Stanford afsd. By Royal lie, 12 Mar. 1 8 18, she took the name of Cave after that of Otway. On 27 Aug. 1839 she was found coh. to the Barony of Braye (as descendant and representative of Dame Elizabeth Verney, one of the six sisters (") and coheirs of the last Lord) and the abeyance thereof was terminated in her favour, by letters patent 3 Oct. 1839, whereby she became suojure BARONESS BRAYE. (•>) She d. s.p.m.s., aged 93, at 14 Great Stanhope Str., Mayfair, 2 1 Feb., and was bur. 4 Mar. 1862, at Stanford, M.I., when the Barony again fell into abeyance between her four daughters and coheirs.() Will pr. 24 Apr. 1862, under ^T 80,000. IV. 1879. 4. Henrietta, suojure. Baroness Brave, only surv. da., became, by the death of her only surv. sister, 13 May 1879, sole h. to her mother, and, as such, inherited her Peerage. She, who was b. 3 Nov. 1809, m. 24 Sep. 1844, at the Chapel of St. Mark's Coll., Chel- sea, the Rev. Edgell Wyatt-Edgell, B.A., Rector of North Cray, Kent, 1834-51, who d. 26 Sep. 1888, aged 87, in Grosvenor Str. She d. six months after her sister, 14 Nov. 1879, at Stanford Hall afsd. Will pr. 24 Dec. 1879, under ;^9,ooo. V. 1879. 5. Alfred Thomas Townshend (Wyatt-Edgell, after- wards Verney-Cave), Lord Braye, 3rd and yst., but only surv. s. and h.('*) He was b. 23 July 1849, in Great Stanhope Str., May- (*) See tabular pedigree. C') Well may Banks write in the Baronia Anglica (vol. i, p. 136, edit. 1 844), "The Lady was very fortunate in her obtainment of it, [the Barony] when there were so many coheirs of high distinction, equal competitors in point of descent. But there is a time and season y«r all things." (■=) These were (i) Maria, h. 24 Dec. 1792, d. unm. 13 May 1879; (2) Anne, m. the Rev. Henry Kemp Richardson, and d. s.p., 22 May 1871 ; (3) Catherine, Dowager Countess Beauchamp, d. s.p., 4 Nov. 1875; and (4) Henrietta, the survivor, who inherited the title. Robert Otway-Cave, their br., M.P. for Leicester 1826-30, and for CO. Tipperary 1832, and 1835-44, d. s.p. and v.m., 29 Nov. 1844. {^) His elder br., Edmund Verney Wyatt-Edgell, Capt. 17th Lancers, d. unm. a few months before his mother, being slain at Ulundi in Zululand, 4 July 1879, aged 33. 38
