608 COOMBE ABBEY AND FIELD8 PARISH. Miller has also constructed some beautiful green-drives in the park. The abbey and grounds are thrown open to the public daily. The late Earl was William 2nd Earl of and 8th Baron Craven. He was born July 18, 1809, and succeeded his father July 30, 1825; was educated at Eaton and Christ Church, Oxford; was Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire, Recorder of Coventry, and High Steward of Newbury; married September 5, 1835, Lady Emily J\Iary Grimston, daughter of the first Earl of Verulam, and died August 25, 1866, having had issue four sons and five daughters. CRAVEN DOWAGER COUNTESS of, Emily Mary, daughter of the 1st Earl of Verulam; married 1835 the 2nd Earl of Craven, who died in 1866. Residence, Great Cumberland-place, Hyde Park, W. The present Earl of Craven is GEORGE GRIMSTON CRAVEN, 3rd Earl, born March 16, 1841, succeeded his father in 1866; was educated at Harrow; entered the Scotch Fusilier Guards as ensign and lieutenant 1860; became lieutenant and captain 1864; was appointed captain in the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry 1867; and is president of the Farringdon Chamber of Commerce; married (1867) Evelyn Laura, daughter of the 7th Viscount Barrington, and has issue living. Sons: William George Robert, Viscount Uffington, born 1868, Rupert Cecil, born 1870; daughter, Mary Beatrice, born 1867. Brotl~er living, Osbert William,~born 1848. Sisters living, Eliza­ beth Charlotte Louisa, born 1836, married 1858 Viscount Grey de Wilton, eldest son of the Earl of Wilton; Evelyn Mary, born 1839, married first 1862 (Bruce), secondly, 1869 (Coventry); Blanche, born 1842, married 1865 the 9th Earl of Coventry; Beatrice J ane, born 1844, married 1865 Viscount Chelsea, eldest son of Earl Codigan; Emily Georgina, born 1846, married 1868 (Van de 'Veyer.) The Earl is patron of ten livings, viz.: Allington R., Wiltshire, Binley D., Rugby R., Wyken V., Warwickshire, Compton Beau­ champ, R., Hampstead Marshall R., Enborne R., Berkshire, Burnsal R., Yorkshire Ombury R., Shropshire, Yelvertoft, Northamtonshire. CREATIONS Baron Craven, 1665, in the Peerage of England. Viscount Uffington and Earl of Craven, 1801, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.