John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden
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Madrid
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, Spain
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, 1850–1858, was the son of General John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
General John Francis Cradock, 1st Baron Howden GCB was a British peer, politician and soldier.-Life:He was son of John Cradock, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin....
, GCB (11 August 1759 – 26 July 1839), a British peer, (1st Baron Howden since 1819 in the Peerage of Ireland
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and since 1831 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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, politician and soldier instrumental in the 1798 battle of Vinegar Hill
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, Enniscorthy
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, County of Wexford
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, within was is known as the Irish Rebellion
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. He was, between other things, Governor of the Cape Colony, 1811 - 1814.
John Hobart Caradoc, was therefore, the grandson of John Cradock
John Cradock
John Cradock was an English churchman, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1772.-Background and education:...
, (1708? - 1778), alias Craddock, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1772, the Irish
Ireland
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branch of the Protestant Church of England
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, nowadays.
His accepted family name changed thus in 2 generations from Craddock to Cradock and then to Caradoc. After 1812, when Georgian
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Prince General at the Service of the Russian Tsars, Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Bagration
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, died as a consequence of the Battle of Borodino
Battle of Borodino
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, (1765 - 28 September 1812),
Marriage to a Latvian-Georgian Princess
In 1830, aged 31, John Hobart Caradoc married his 15 year older sweet widower Latvian - GeorgianGeorgian people
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Katharina Pavlovna Shavronska, – (1783–1857), the widow of Napoleonic Georgian born Prince and General at the service of Tsar Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia
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, Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...
, (1765 - 28 September 1812).
Georgian General and Prince Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...
(1765–1812) married Latvian nobility lady Katharina Pavlovna Shavronska (1783–1857). She married for the second time and as a widow, in 1830, 15 years younger British General and diplomat John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden (1799–1873), Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy at Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
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, 1850 - 1858. There was no issue and the title became extinct at his death, 1873
Latvian
Latvia
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born Katharina Pavlovna Shavronska (1783 - 1857) became a widow of Georgian General and Prince at the service of Tsar Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....
in September 1812, Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...
, (1765 - 1812, aged 47), as a result of the Battle of Borodino
Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties...
, Russia
Russia
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, in September 1812, when she was only 29 years old. She became very friendly with German Politician in Austria Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich, (1773 - 1859). She married for the second time in 1830, aged 47, 15 years younger British General and Diplomat John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy at Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, 1850 - 1858, deceased 1873. No issue. Painting by Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Jean-Baptiste Isabey was a French painter born at Nancy.At nineteen, after some lessons from Dumont, miniature painter to Marie Antoinette, he became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David...
External links
- John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden of Howden and Grimston at thepeerage.com