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5o6 CRAVEN EARLDOM IV. h866. 3 and 9. George Grimston (Craven), Earl OF Craven, (s'c., 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., L 16 Mar. 1 84 1, in Charles Str. afsd.; ed. at Harrow BARONY school; Lieut. Scots Fusilier Guards, i860; Capt., 1864-66. Lord Lieut, of Berks, 1 88 1 till his death. IX. J A Liberal. He w., 17 Jan. 1867, at Shrivenham, Berks, Evelyn Laura, 2nd da. and coh. of George William (Barrington), 7th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass [I.], by Isabel Elizabeth, da. of John Morritt. He d. 7 Dec. 1883, after a long illness, in his 43rd year, at Ashdown Park, Berks, and was i>U7'. at Binley, CO. Warwick. Will pr. above ;/^ 173,000. His widow, who was/". 16 July 1848, at Shrivenham House, was living 1913. EARLDOM. V. BARONY. X. 1883. 4 and 10. William George Robert (Craven), Earl of Craven [1801], Viscount Uffington [1801], and Baron Craven of Hampsted Marshall [1666], s. and h., l>. 16 Dec. 1868. Sometime A.D.C. to the Viceroy of Ireland; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 191 1.(') Third Ministerial Whip in the House Hem., 18 Apr. 1893, at Grace Church, New York, U.S.A., Cornelia, only da. of Bradley Martin, of New York, and of Bal- macaan, co. Inverness. of Lords, Nov. 1912. [William George Bradley Craven, sly/ed Viscount Uffington, s. and h. ap., i. at Combe Abbey, 3 1 July, and l>ap. 26 Aug. 1 897, at Binley.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 19,225 acres in Berks; 8,447 in CO. Warwick; ^)^'^S in the West Ridingof Yorkshire; 803 in Salop; 419 in Wilts and 70 in Hants; Total, 30,789 acres, worth £iJ,S<)3 a year. Principal Residences. — Combe Abbey, near Coventry, co. Warwick, and Ashdown Park, near Shrivenham, Berks, CRAVEN OF RYTON BARONY. I. 1643 to 1648. John Craven, next br. to William, Baron Craven of Hampsted Marshall, afterwards (1664) Earl Craven, abovementioned, was 2nd s. of Sir William C, Lord Mayor of London (1610-1 1) by Elizabeth, da. of William Whitmore. He was irap. at St. Andrew Undershaft, London, 10 June i6io;was M.P. for Tewkesbury, 1640 till the election was declared void in 1641 ; and is said to have been held in great esteem by King Charles I. On 2 1 Mar. 1642/3, he was cr. "BARON (*) He received this office from the Liberal Government, though described in Dod for that and previous years as a Conservative : he figures in that work for 1 9 1 2 as a Liberal. V.G.