BARONET'S DEATH

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 7

BARONET'S DEATH

life OF ADVENTURE.

Circus Hand, Soldier, Sailor And " Cowboy Parson."

SIR G-. CAVE-BROWNE-CAVE

("Times" Cables.)

LONDON, October 30. The "Times," in referring to the death of the Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, the 12th baronet, rector of Londesborough, which occurred yesterday, says he had led a roving life which the most' adventurous missionary or bush-brother would have envied. At the age of 13 he joined Sanger's Circus, but was brought back and sent to a training ship. He was discharged for insubordination at the age of 16. He then sold his clothes, but his father refjtted him, and he enlisted in a cavalry regiment. He fought and got into, endless scrapes. When in India he purchased his discharge and went tiger shooting in Bnrma, and was later a gold-digger in Mysore. He rejoined the Army and went to South Africa. After that he ran a ranch in Kansas, and shipped to England as a, cattleman. After taking part in the Spanish-American War and becoming a quartermaster on a Far Eastern liner, Cave-Browne-Cave reached China in the nick of time for the Boxer rebellion. On the cessation of hostilities he was enabled to visit Salt Lake City, and then came to England on his father's death and succeeded to the baronetcy. He did stage turns at the London Hippodrome for £100 a week. He then went to America, where the Salvation Army converted him. He scrubbed floors and acted as janitor until he became a Congrcgationalist in New Jersey and then a Methodist in Virginia. He enlisted and was a corporal in a Canadian regiment in the Great War. When he was demobilised he studied at the London College of Divinity and was ordained in 1920. He wrote his autobiography and gained world-wide fame as the "cowboy parson."