Educated at Leeds, University College, London, Paris, and Edinburgh. He practised at Woodlesford near Wakefield in Yorkshire, and afterwards at Southport, Lancs. At the time of his death be was Hon Medical Officer of the Southport Convalescent Hospital and Sea-Bathing Infirmary, and a Certifying Fac

The son of Robert Martin Craven (the first), surgeon of Hull. He was elected Surgeon to the Hull General (now the Hull Royal) Infirmary and was Chamberlain of Hull in 1832. He lectured on surgery at the Hull School of Medicine and Anatomy; carried on a practice with his father, whom he predeceased,