The arms are those of Craven impaling those of Berkeley, for William, 6th Baron Craven, born in 1738. He succeeded on the death of his uncle, having married in 1767 Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of Augustus, 4th Earl of Berkeley. They separated in 1780 in one of the great causes celebres of 18th century society, according to her story owing ot his infidelity, but in this regard there does not seem to have been much to chose between the pair. A rather scandalous book, The Whig Club of 1794, speaks of her "unblushing profligacy". The Earl appeared in 1780 with a Mrs. Coxe as "Lord C... and Mrs. Coxe" in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country Magazine but it was the amorous escapades of his wife that stole the limelight: for some years she was publically acknowledged as the mistress of the Margrave of Anspach, a German nobleman who had sold his Principality to the King of Prussia and taken up residence in England where he lived at "Brandenburg House", Hammersmith. The Countess Craven was well known in contemporary society as the Margravine of Anspach. She was the author of numerous plays and of A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. She is often mentioned by Horace Walpole, who admired her beauty, talents and her perfect frankness. "Serena" Holroyd writes from Bath on November 23, 1791, "I was told that Lady Craven, on hearing of her Lord's death, put on deep mourning that very day, wept, and went through the whole ceremony of a widow. The next morning she wiped her tears, threw off her weeds, put on bridal trappings, and was married to the Margrave!" Later the same correspondant wrote "They told me the Margrave and Margravine of Anspach were all the amusement...Only think of her dancing a minuet and country dance... He is an insignificant looking man and undoubtedly must be a poor, mean silly fellow to leave his country &c. for such a purpose." [Complete Peerage]