sentences:  In 1801 he was created Viscount Uffington, in the County of Berkshire, and Earl of Craven, in the County of York.The earldom was a revival of the title held by his 17th-century kinsman and namesake William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven.He was commissioned into the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot in 1793, and subsequently served with the 80th and 84th Regiments.