Cornelia (Martin) Craven (1877-1961)

She was brought up predominantly in New York, her parents were remembered for hosting one of the most lavish balls of the Gilded Age. In 1881, her parents rented an estate in Scotland for the season: Balmacaan House in Inverness-shire near Loch Ness. After marrying her husband in 1893, the 4th Earl of Craven, she lived between London and Coombe Abbey in Warwickshire and had one son. After her husband died she sold Coombe Lodge in 1923 and moved into Hamstead Lodge at Hamstead Marshall near Newbury, Berkshire (see images). Her friend and fellow New Yorker, the also widowed Mrs Louise (Van Rensselaer) Baylies, was living at Hamstead Lodge when she died in 1945. Cornelia died there in 1961.