Cicely Musgrave Craven

Cicely Musgrave Craven (23 March 1890 – 9 February 1962) was a British educator, magistrate, and prison reformer.

Early life Cicely Musgrave Craven was born near Kendal, Westmorland, the daughter of Robert Musgrave Craven and Margaret Gibbons Craven. Her father was a medical examiner. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey school, and at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she studied history from 1909 to 1912. (Her degree was not granted until 1920, when women were first allowed to receive Oxford degrees.) She also earned a London teaching credential. She was also editor of the Howard Journal. In this role, she testified in parliamentary hearings, gave interviews, wrote for periodicals and professional journals, conducted summer schools, and worked with other organizations on common causes. She took particular interest in preventive and remedial approaches to juvenile delinquency. She retired from the Howard League in 1950,

Craven was appointed justice of the peace for St Albans in the 1930s, and was district councillor for the same city from 1928 to 1932. She was also active in the St Albans Housing Association.