Kammala wannan jumla: Shi ɗan Thomas Cave ne, dan majalisa na Liberal, kuma daya daga cikin 'yan uwansa shi ne George Cave wanda zai zama Sakataren Harkokin Cikin Gida na Conservative da Viscount. Basil Cave ya yi aiki ga Ofishin Harkokin Waje a matsayin ma'aikacin gwamnati kuma an nada shi Mataimakin Shugaban Kasar Afirka ta Gabas a shekarar 1891. A shekara ta 1893 an sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan sojoji da yawa a lokacin rikice-rikicen jama'a a Zanzibar kuma a shekara ta 1895 an nada shi Consul zuwa kasar. Janar-Consul, A.H. Hardinge ba ya nan, Cave ne ya fara aikin
Yaƙin Anglo-Zanzibar a shekara ta 1896. Ya ba da takaddama ga Khalid bin Barghash wanda ya kwace kursiyin a kan mutuwar Sultan Hamad. Yaƙin da ya biyo baya na minti 38, mafi guntu a tarihi, ya ƙare da nasara ga Biritaniya da kuma sanya Sarkin da suka zaɓa, Hamoud bin Mohammed.