Colonel the Right Reverend Monsignor Francis Oswin Cave MC (27 August 1897 – 21 November 1974) known to his friends as "Katie" was an Army officer and later a priest, who took an interest in the birds of Africa, taking part in the Hall Macdonald expedition into South West Africa in 1949.
His education was interrupted by the First World War during which he joined the Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the MC.
After the war, he moved to the army and joined the Rifle Brigade and served in the Sudan and east Africa.
He retired in 1949 and joined the Church to serve again in Sudan as part of the Verona Fathers' Mission.
He left the country in 1955 when he published his major work The Birds of the Sudan along with J.D.