Lady Evelyn Craven
(1839-1924)

Volume 1, page 155, sitting number 822.

Lady Evelyn Mary Craven was born in 1839, the second daughter and third child of William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven and Lady Emily Mary née Grimston. On 7 August 1862 she married the son of Sir Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury and the Honourable Louisa Elizabeth Horsley-Beresford. The marriage produced two children. Her first husband died in 1868. She married, secondly, Henry Amelius Beauclerk Coventry, son of the Honourable Henry Amelius Coventry and grandson of the 8th Earl of Coventry. The couple had one child and were divorced in 1877. She married, thirdly, Captain George William Hutton Riddell on 30 August 1877.

She died, aged 84, on 7 November 1924 at Bragborough Hall near Rugby.