Keppel Richard Craven

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is uncategorized.

Please help improve this article by adding it to one or more categories, so it may be associated with related articles (how?). Please remove this tag after categorizing.
This page has been tagged since December 2006.

Hon. Keppel Richard Craven (June 1, 1779 - June 24, 1851), British traveller and dilettante.

Third and youngest son of William Craven and Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, daughter of the 4th Earl of Berkeley. His mother divorced when Keppel was only three years old and moved to France with him. They returned to England in 1791 to send Keppel to school at Harrow under an assumed name.

Keppel travelled a good deal, and in 1814 he accepted the post of Chamberlain to Princess Caroline of Wales. He was a close friend of William Gell and travelled with him in Italy. Keppel was a skilled topographer and was the author of A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples (1821) and Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples (1837).

[edit] Bibliography

  • A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples. London, 1821
  • Excursions in the Abruzzi and Northern Provinces of Naples, 2 vols. London 1837
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../k/e/p/Keppel_Richard_Craven_8860.html"