John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden

John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden

He married Princess Catherine Bagration, née Countess Skavronskaya in 1830. The union was childless and the couple separated.^{[citation needed]}

Career

He served in parliament as M.P. for Dundalk in 1830–31.

He had been appointed as a liaison officer of the British Army during the siege of the Belgian Antwerp citadel by the French Northern Army of Marshall Gérard end of 1832. For his services he had been made an officer in the Belgian order of Leopold on 10 March 1833 and a commander in 1852.

Honours

• Commander of the Order of Leopold.^[1]

See also

• Baron Howden

References

• http://www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/body_files/b_body.htm. A very short sketch on the life of former Mrs. Bagration, a widow since 1812, née Skavronsky, (1783–1857), who married in 1830, 47, 15 years younger John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, title inherited, and extinct at his death in 1873, no issue, since 1839.
• http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/howden/howden000.html. This document is entitled: "Catalogue of papers of John Francis Cradock (later Caradoc), 1st Baron Howden, and of his son, John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, 1806-58", Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Alexander Mikaberidze, "The Lion of the Russian Army: Life and Military Career of Prince General Peter Bagration", 2 volumes, (doct. diss., Florida State University, 2003).
• http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/bagration/c_bagration1.html . A page by Alexander MIKABERIDZE, Chairman of the Napoleonic Society of Georgia, mentioned above.

Specific

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Hobart Caradoc