George Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven

George Grimston Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven (16 March 1841 – 7 December 1883) was a British peer.

Early life Craven was born on 16 March 1841. He was the eldest surviving son born to William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven and his wife, the former Lady Emily Mary Grimston (1815–1901). the second daughter and co-heiress of George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington and the former Isabel Elizabeth Morritt (only child of John Morritt of Rokeby Park). Together, they were the parents of six children, including: who married the American heiress, Cornelia Martin, daughter of banker Bradley Martin, in 1893. The Hon. Rupert Cecil Craven OBE (1870–1959), who married Inez Morton Broom, daughter of George Broom in 1899. They divorced in 1908 and he married Josephine Margueritte Banbury (née Reixach y Gisbert) in 1925. Josephine, the widow of Capt. Charles William Banbury, was a daughter of Don José Reixach y Gisbert.

Descendants Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of William Craven, 5th Earl of Craven.

Through his second son, an electrical engineer who eventually cut timber in Uganda before a 1912 bankruptcy, he was a grandfather of Lt. Commander Rupert José Evelyn Craven RN (b. 1926), the current heir presumptive to the Earldom of Craven.

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