Francis Merry Cave (known as Merry) died on 21 August 2012 aged 96.
He was born in Essex on 16 September 1915 and moved to Boston when he was a few months old. He initially attended St Thomas’ School, moving to Park Board School in order to take the scholarship exam. He achieved the second highest score in the county and was awarded a
scholarship for free grammar school education at Boston Grammar School. At
BGS he passed all his exams with "good" or "credit" marks but he was more interested
in sport than study and played football and cricket for the school and later
for the old boys.
