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William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

British landowner and militia officer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven
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Colonel William Craven, 6th Baron Craven (11 September 1738 – 26 September 1791) was a British landowner and militia officer.

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c.1776 portrait of Craven by Thomas Beach
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Benham Park

Life

William Craven was the son of Revd John Craven, Vicar of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire (1708–1752), and his wife, Mary Rebecca Hickes (1714–1791), daughter of Rev. Baptist Hickes. He succeeded his uncle, William Craven, as Baron Craven in 1769.

In 1775, he built Benham Park at the site of Benham Valence in Speen, Berkshire where he lived with his wife, Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, until she left him in 1780 to travel in Europe. They had issue: three sons and four daughters. After his death on 27 September 1791 at age 53 in Lausanne, Switzerland, she married Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.[1]

It was Lord Craven who, in 1780, built the original Cottage at what is now an English Premier League stadium Craven Cottage, Fulham.

As Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1786 he also served as colonel of the Berkshire Militia.[1]

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Issue

His children were:[2]

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