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Henry Augustus Berkeley Craven (1776-1836) and Keppel Richard Craven (1779-1851), second and third son of William, 6th Baron Craven (1738-1791) and Elizabeth Berkeley (who married secondly Christian Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth), youngest daughter of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley. Henry, Major-General in the Army, married Marie-Clarisse Trebhault (died 1865). When Keppel was three years old, his father separated from his wife who was allowed to take Keppel with her to France on the proviso that he should return to his father when he was eight years old. This proviso was not fulfilled and Keppel was enrolled at Harrow School under a foreign name, but was recognised by the similarity in looks to his mother and so was called by his family name. In 1814, Keppel accepted the position of one of the chamberlains to the Princess of Wales and six years later was asked to give evidence at her trial where he declared he had never seen any impropriety in her behaviour. In 1821, he published A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples and in 1838 Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples. In 1834 he bought a large convent near Salerno. He died in Naples in 1851 and was considered "one of the last triumvirate of English literati, scholars and gentleman".