Biography of William Craven 1st Earl Craven 1770-1825
Paternal Family Tree: Craven
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Ernle 1697-1759
Pepy's Diary. 10 Mar 1665. Home to dinner, and thence to the Committee of Tangier at White Hall, where my Lord Barkely (age 63) and Craven and others; but, Lord! to see how superficially things are done in the business of the Lottery, which will be the disgrace of the Fishery, and without profit.
On 30 May 1767 [his father] William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 28) and [his mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 47). She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 17 Mar 1769 William Craven 5th Baron Craven (age 63) died. His grandson [his father] William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 30) succeeded 6th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire. [his mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 18) by marriage Baroness Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
On 28 Sep 1770 William Craven 1st Earl Craven was born to William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 32) and Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 19). He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 26 Sep 1791 [his father] William Craven 6th Baron Craven (age 53) died at Lausanne. His son William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 20) succeeded 7th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire. His son William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 20) succeeded 8th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
On 13 Oct 1791 [his step-father] Charles Alexander Hohenzollern Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 55) and [his mother] Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 40) were married at Lisbon. She by marriage Margravine Brandenburg Ansbach. She the daughter of Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley and Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent (age 71). He a great grandson of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
The Memoirs of Harriet Wilson Chapter 1. 1801. I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven (age 30). Whether it was love, or the severity of my father, the depravity of my own heart, or the winning arts of the noble lord, which induced me to leave my paternal roof and place myself under his protection, does not now much signify; or, if it does, I am not in the humour to gratify curiosity in this matter.
I resided on the Marine Parade at Brighton, and I remember that Lord Craven used to draw cocoa trees, and his fellows as he called them, on the best vellum paper for my amusement. "Here stood the enemy," he would say, "and here, my love, are my fellows. There the cocoa trees, &c." It was, in fact, a dead bore. All these cocoa trees and fellows, at past eleven o'clock at night, could have no peculiar interest for a child like myself, so lately in the habit of retiring early to rest. One night, I recollect, I fell asleep; and, as I often dream, I said yawning, and half awake, "O Lord! O Lord! Craven has got me into the West Indies again." In short I soon found that I had made but a bad speculation, by going from my father to Lord Craven. I was even more afraid of the latter than I had been of the former. Not that there was any particular harm in the man beyond his cocoa trees; but we never suited nor understood each other.
The London Gazette 15375. Whitehall, June 15, 1801.
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Honorable William Lord Craven (age 30), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Names, Stiles, and Titles of Viscount Uffington, in the County of Berks, and Earl of Craven in the County of York. [[his future wife] Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 16) by marriage Countess Craven in Yorkshire].
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Honourable George Lord Onslow (age 69), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Names, Stiles, and Title of Viscount Cranley, of Cranley, in the County of Surrey, and Earl of Onslow, of Onslow, in the County of Salop. [Henrietta Shelley Countess Onslow (age 70) by marriage Countess Onslow.]
The King has also been pleased to grant the said Dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Romney (age 56), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stiles, and Titles of Viscount Marsham of the Mote, in the County of Kent, and 1st Earl of Romney. [Frances Wyndham Countess Romney by marriage Countess Romney.]
The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of Earl of tlie United Kingdom of Great Biitain and Ireland to the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Pelham (age 73), and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by tbe Name, Stile, and Title of Earl of Chichester. [Anne Frankland Countess Chichester (age 66) by marriage Countess Chichester.]
The King has likewise been pleased to grant the Dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Grey de Wilton (age 51), and the Heirs Male, of his body lawfully begotten, by the Names, Stiles and Titles of Viscount Grey de Wilton, and Earl of Wilton, of Wilton Castle, in the County of Hereford, with Remainders to Thomas Grosvenor, Esq; Second Son, Robert Grosvenor, Esq. Third Son of the Right Honourable Robert Grosvenor (age 34), (commonly called Viscount Belgrave), by Eleanor (age 30) his Wife, Daughter of the said Thomas Lord Grey de Wilton (age 51), and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixths Seventh, and every other Son and Sons, of the said Eleanor by her present or any future Husband, hereafter to be begotten severally and successively, and the respective Heirs Male of their Bodies lawfully begotten. [Eleanor Assheton Viscountess Wilton (age 48) by marriage Countess Wilton.]
On 12 Dec 1807 William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 37) and Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 22) were married at his house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair. He the son of William Craven 6th Baron Craven and Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach (age 56). He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 18 Aug 1809 [his son] William Craven 2nd Earl Craven was born to William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 38) and [his wife] Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 24).
On 15 Aug 1810 [his son] George Augustus Craven was born to William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 39) and [his wife] Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 25).
In 1815. Thomas Lawrence (age 45). Portrait of William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 44).
On 30 Jul 1825 William Craven 1st Earl Craven (age 54) died. His son [his son] William Craven 2nd Earl Craven (age 15) succeeded 2nd Earl Craven in Yorkshire, 2nd Viscount Uffington, 8th Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.
On 27 Aug 1860 [his former wife] Louisa Brunton Countess Craven (age 75) died.
[his daughter] Louisa Elizabeth Craven was born to William Craven 1st Earl Craven and Louisa Brunton Countess Craven.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: William Craven
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Craven 2nd Baron Craven
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Craven
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Craven 5th Baron Craven
GrandFather: John Craven of Stanton Lacy
Father: William Craven 6th Baron Craven
William Craven 1st Earl Craven 3 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Berkeley 8th Baron Berkeley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Berkeley 1st Earl Berkeley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stanhope Baroness Berkeley
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Berkeley 2nd Earl Berkeley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Massingberd
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Massingberd Couness Berkeley
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Berkeley 3rd Earl Berkeley 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden
Great x 3 Grandfather: Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount Campden
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Noel Countess Berkeley
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hester Wotton Viscountess Campden
GrandFather: Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland Son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Lennox 1st Duke Richmond Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Guillaume de Penancoët Seigneur de Kéroualle
Great x 3 Grandmother: Louise Kéroualle 1st Duchess Portsmouth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie de Plœuc
Great x 1 Grandmother: Louisa Lennox Countess Berkeley Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Brudenell 2nd Earl Cardigan
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Brudenell 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Savage Countess Cardigan
8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Brudenell Duchess Richmond 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Savile 1st Earl of Sussex
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Savile 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Villiers Countess Sussex
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Elizabeth Berkeley Margrave Brandenburg Ansbach 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Drax
GrandMother: Elizabeth Drax Countess Berkeley and Nugent
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Ernle 3rd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ernle