On 18 April 1893, Lord Craven, then twenty-four years old, married sixteen year-old Cornelia Martin (1877–1961) at Grace Church, New York City. Cornelia, who was the only daughter of Bradley Martin, a wealthy American banker, and his wife, Cornelia Sherman Martin, met Craven while her family was renting a Scottish highland estate, Balmacaan. The marriage brought him property in Mayfair and paid for the renovation of Coombe Abbey, his family estate in Warwickshire which got a new roof, structural repairs, and its first electric lights. Together, they were the parents of: