In 1780, after thirteen years of marriage, and reported affairs on both sides, his parents parted permanently.

This was followed by active service in the Netherlands and the Mediterranean, ultimately achieving the rank of Lieutenant-general.

[7] Louisa was a daughter of John Brunton, a grocer who later became an actor and manager of the Norwich Theatre.

[8][9] Together, they were the parents of:[4] Lord Craven mostly resided at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry in Warwickshire and occasionally at Hamstead Marshall in Berkshire.

He is not entirely forgotten – Harriette Wilson begins her famous memoir, "I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.