Person:William Craven (6)

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William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven OBE (16 December 1868 – 10 July 1921), styled Viscount Uffington from 1868 to 1883, was a British peer and Liberal politician.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1989).

   The Cravens had a reputation for dissolution, based in part on the 3rd Earl’s relationship with the famous courtesan “Skittles” Walters. The 4th Earl was a cousin of Viscount Deerhurst and the Coventry brothers, who married Virginia Bonynge, Edith Kip (McCreery) and Lily Whitehouse. He and Cornelia met at Balmaccaan, married in New York when Cornelia was seventeen and lived in London. They had one son, who was painted by Boldini. Whilst racing at Cowes Week in 1921 and although a strong swimmer at age 52, Lord Craven fell overboard and drowned. His body was washed ashore two days later.

3. ↑ Burke, Bernard (John Bernard). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. (London, London, England: Harrison, 1865).
4.   Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
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