(1759–1839), father of John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden John Hobart Caradoc was the son of General
John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, a British peer, (1st Baron Howden since 1819) in the
Peerage of Ireland and since 1831 in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was a politician and soldier instrumental in the 1798 battle of
Vinegar Hill,
Enniscorthy, County of
Wexford, within what 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 two generations from Craddock to Cradock and then to Caradoc. He married Princess
Catherine Bagration, née Countess Skavronskaya in 1830. The union was childless and the couple separated. ==Career==