10 Facts About Cicely Craven

Cicely Musgrave Craven was a British educator, magistrate, and prison reformer.

Cicely Musgrave Craven was born near Kendal, Westmorland, the daughter of Robert Musgrave Craven and Margaret Gibbons Craven.

Cicely Craven was educated at Wycombe Abbey school, and at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied history from 1909 to 1912.

In 1926, with no previous engagement in the cause of prison reform, Cicely Craven replaced Margery Fry as secretary of the Howard League for Penal Reform.

Cicely Craven took particular interest in preventive and remedial approaches to juvenile delinquency.

Cicely Craven retired from the Howard League in 1950, and was succeeded by the League's first full-time paid secretary, Hugh Klare.

Cicely Craven was appointed justice of the peace for St Albans in the 1930s, and was district councillor for the same city from 1928 to 1932.

Cicely Craven was active in the St Albans Housing Association.

Cicely Craven lived with her sister, Millicent Musgrave Cicely Craven, a social worker, in Welwyn Garden City.

Cicely Craven died there in 1962, aged 71 years, from cancer.