Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Berkshire; also was elected Lord Palatine of the province of Carolina, in the 7th year of Queen Anne. And having married Elizabeth, daughter of Humberston Skipwith, Esq. son and heir apparent of Sir Fulwar Skip. with, of Newbold-hall, in the county of Warwick, Bart. had issue three sons; 1. William, Lord Craven. 2. Fulwar, Lord Craven. 3. Robert, of whom his mother died in childbed, May 16th, 1704, and he departed this life unmarried.

His Lordship died at Combe Abbey, in Warwickshire, on October 9th, 1711, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

WILLIAM, THIRD LORD CRAVEN, who was under age at the death of his father; and after his return from his travels, in the year 1721, married Anne, only daughter to Frederick Tilney, of Rotherwick, in com. Southampton, Esq. by whom he had issue one daughter, Anne, who died on November 21st, 1725. And the Lady Craven, her mother, departing this life in the twentysixth year of her age, on February 5th, 1729-30, his Lordship continued a widower till his death, August 10th, 1739. He was succeeded in honour and estate by his only brother,

FULWAR, FOURTH LORD CRAVEN, who departed this life on Saturday, November 10th, 1764, without issue, at Benham, near Reading, in Berkshire, and was buried at Hampsted-Marshal.

The title and dignity of Lord Craven then devolved on WILLIAM, eldest son of John Craven, Esq. brother to William, second Lord Craven, and third son of Sir William Craven, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Christopher Clapham, as before recited.

Which WILLIAM thus became FIFTH LORD CRAVEN. His Lordship was returned, at the general election in 1747, one of the Knights of the shire for the county of Warwick, to the tenth parliament of Great Britain; and continued to represent that county in every ensuing parliament, until he succeeded to the Peerage.

His Lordship wedded Jane, daughter of Rowland Berkeley, of Cotheridge, in Worcestershire, Esq and sister to Catharine, the second Lady of Thomas, fourth Lord Leigh, of Stoneley. His Lordship dying without issue March 18th, 1769, was succeeded in title and estate by his nephew,

WILLIAM, SIXTH LORD CRAVEN (only son of his brother, John Craven, Esq. by Mary Hickes.) His Lordship, on May 10th, 1767, was married to Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, by whom he had issue,

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1. Elizabeth, born April 20th, 1768; married, April 17th, 1792, to John Edward Maddocks, Esq. of Vale Mascall, in Kent, deceased, has issue. She died January 3d, 1799.

2. Maria.

3. Margaretta, born April 26th, 1769; married, January 1st, 1792, William, Earl of Sefton, and has issue.

4. William, the present Earl.

5. Georgiana, married, April 6th, 1793, the Hon. Frederick St. John, Major-general in the army, brother to Viscount Bolingbroke.

6. Henry-Augustus Berkeley, born December 21st, 1776, a Major in the army, 1803, on half-pay.

7. Keppel, born June 1st, 1779.

His Lordship, on July 7th, 1773, had the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law, by the University of Oxford, on the instalment of Frederick, Lord North, as Chancellor of that University.

Dying September 26th, 1791, his widow re-married the late Margrave of Anspach and Bareuth, who died January 5th, 1806.

His Lordship was succeeded by his eldest son, WILLIAM, SEVENTH LORD CRAVEN, who was elevated to a Viscounty and Earldom, on June 13th, 1801, by the titles of VISCOUNT UFFINGTON, in the county of Berks, and EARL OF CRAVEN, in the county of York.

His Lordship was born September 1st, 1770.

His Lordship married, December 12th, 1807, Miss Louisa Brunton, of Covent-Garden Theatre.

His Lordship originally had a command in the Berkshire Militia, but resigning his situation, he entered soon afterwards the regular army; and on September 2d, 1794, was appointed Lieutenant-colonel of the third regiment of foot. On January 1st, 1798, he obtained the rank of Colonel; at the same time he was appointed one of the Aid-de-Camps to the King. On January 1st, 1805, he was promoted to the rank of Major-general; but is at present on half-pay.

Titles. William Craven, Earl of Craven, in Yorkshire; Viscount Uffington, in Berkshire; aud Baron Craven, in Yorkshire. Creations. Baron Craven, of Hampsted-Marshall, in con. Berks, by letters patent, December 11th (1665), 17 Car. II. and Viscount Uffington, of Uffington, co. Berks; and Earl of Craven, in Yorkshire, June 13th, 1801.

Arms. Argent, a fess between six cross-croslets, fitchy, Gules. Crest. On a chapeau, Gules, turned up ermine, a griphon statant of the second, beaked, Or.

Supporters. Two griphons, Ermine.

Motto. VIRTUS IN ACTIONE CONSISTIT.

Chief Seats. At Combe-Abbey, in the county of Warwick; at Hampsted-Marshall; at Ashdown-park, near Lamburn; and at Benham-place, all in Berkshire.

THIS family of Onslow was anciently seated in Shropshire, where they had large possessions; and, in the reign of King Henry III. took their surname from their Lordship of Ondeslow (now wrote Onslow, but in Doomsday-book is styled Andeslow), and is within the liberty of the town of Shrewsbury. Surnames, as Camden, and all our antiquaries agree, were, in the said reign of Hen. III. first generally assumed, and were not fully settled till the end of the reign of King Edward I.

a

In the several visitations by the heralds of Shropshire and Surrey, ROGER de Ondeslow is the first written of that place, and had issue two sons, Thomas and William; whereof

THOMAS, the eldest, is mentioned in deeds in 1281 and 1303, the 9th and 31st of King Edward I. and dying without issue, was succeeded in the Lordship of Onslow, and his other estate, by

WILLIAM de Onslow, his brother and heir, who left issue two sons; 1. Richard. And, 2. Thomas.

RICHARD is mentioned in deeds in 8 Edward II. and had issue, Thomas, who died unmarried; so that the Lordship of Onslow, &c. devolved on his uncle,

THOMAS, who was written of Onslow, in 10 Edward II. and had issue by Sibill his wife, two sons, William and Thomas. WILLIAM, the eldest son, is mentioned in deeds dated 11 Edward III. but died without issue; and

THOMAS de Onslow, his brother, was possessed of the Lordship of Onslow, in 1341, and had issue five sons.

a Visit. de Com. Salop and Surrey, p. 12, in Offic. Arm. c Visit. in com. Surrey, præd.

b Ibid.

1. John. 2. Richard. 3. Robert. 4. William.

5. Thomas, who was living 19 Richard II. and had issue, Roger, from whom the Onslows, of Rodington, in Shropshire, descended, and whose male line became extinct in the reign of King Henry VII.

JOHN, the eldest son of Thomas de Onslow, was living in 8 Henry VI. and by Margaret his wife, daughter and heir of Madoc Kinaston, of Shropshire, had a daughter, Elizabeth, and two sons; 1. Thomas, who died without issue.

2. ROBERT married Catherine, daughter of Richard Corbet, of Morton-Corbet, in com. Salop, and by her left issue Edward Onslow, his son and heir; and a daughter, Bridget, married to William Cotton, of Cotton, in the said county of Salop, Esq. Which

EDWARD Onslow, of Onslow, married Anne, daughter of Richard Houghton, of Houghton, in com. Pal. Lanc. Esq. by whom he had issue four sons; viz.

1. Humphry.

2. Roger, ancestor to the present Earl of Onslow. 3. Thomas. And, 4. William.

HUMPHRY, the eldest son, had three wives; first, Margaret, daughter of Richard Wrotesley, of Wrotesley, in Staffordshire, Esq. ancestor to the present Sir John Wrotesley, of the same place, Bart.; secondly, to, daughter of Thomas Cresset; his third wife was Elizabeth, daughter to Ellis Kyffin, of Shropshire; but he had issue only by his first wife; viz. Edward Onslow, of Onslow, Esq. who, by Jane, daughter of Roger Fouler, of Bromhill, in Norfolk, had five sons, and three daughters; whereof Roger, his eldest son, succeeded at Onslow, was living in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and had issue six sons and five daughters. But to trace this line farther is beside my present purpose; and therefore I shall only mention, that

Thomas, third son of Edward Onslow, Esq. and Anne Houghton, before-mentioned, had posterity; also that William, the fourth son, was progenitor to the Onslows of Cliff, in com. Salop. As the last will and testament of the said Thomas Onslow shews how he was related, I shall give a short abstract thereof. will is dated on August 10th, 1556, and the probate, May 15th, 1560. He bequeaths to all the children of Thomas Onslow, his son and heir, 200 marks, to be equally divided among them; and

d Ex Regist. Mellerthe, Qu. 30, in Cur. Prærog. Cantuar.

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