John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, (1799–1873), Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy at Madrid, Spain, 1850–1858, was the son of General John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, GCB (11 August 1759 – 26 July 1839), a British peer, (1st Baron Howden since 1819 in the Peerage of Ireland and since 1831 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , politician and soldier instrumental in the 1798 battle of Vinegar Hill, Enniscorthy, County of Wexford, within was is known as the Irish Rebellion. He was, between other things, Governor of the Cape Colony, 1811 - 1814.
John Hobart Caradoc, was therefore, the grandson of John Cradock, (1708? - 1778), alias Craddock, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1772, the Irish branch of the Protestant Church of England, nowadays.
His accepted family name changed thus in 2 generations from Craddock to Cradock and then to Caradoc. After 1812, when Georgian Prince General at the Service of the Russian Tsars, Pyotr Bagration, died as a consequence of the Battle of Borodino, (1765 - 28 September 1812),
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In 1830, aged 31, John Hobart Caradoc married his 15 year older sweet widower Latvian - Georgian Katharina Pavlovna Shavronska, – (1783–1857), the widow of Napoleonic Georgian born Prince and General at the service of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Pyotr Bagration, (1765 - 28 September 1812).
Georgian General and Prince Pyotr Bagration (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, Spain, 1850 - 1858. There was no issue and the title became extinct at his death, 1873
Latvian born Katharina Pavlovna Shavronska (1783 - 1857) became a widow of Georgian General and Prince at the service of Tsar Alexander I of Russia in September 1812, Pyotr Bagration, (1765 - 1812, aged 47), as a result of the Battle of Borodino, Russia, 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, Spain, 1850 - 1858, deceased 1873. No issue. Painting by Jean-Baptiste Isabey