William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven

Noble person

1917 – 1965

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Who was William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven?

William Robert Bradley Craven, 6th Earl of Craven was a British peer.

He was the son of William Craven, 5th Earl of Craven, and inherited the earldom in 1932.

Lord Craven was educated at Downside and at the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards and as a Lieutenant in the RNVR during the Second World War. Lord Craven was created a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1959. He married 1st 1939 Irene Meyrick, of London, by whom he had one daughter, Lady Sarah Jane Craven. That marriage was dissolved in 1954. Lord Craven married 2nd 1954 Elizabeth Gwendolen Teresa Johnstone-Douglas, by whom he had two sons and one daughter, Lady Ann Craven.

He was succeeded by his elder son Thomas Craven, 7th Earl of Craven.

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Born
Sep 8, 1917
Died
Jan 27, 1965

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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