Baron Howden was a title in both the Peerage of Ireland

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 and the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. John Caradoc, the former Governor of the Cape of Good Hope

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, was created Baron Howden, of Grimston and of Spaldington and of Cradockstown in the County of Kildare, in the Peerage of Ireland on 19 October 1819. On 10 September 1831 he was made Baron Howden, of Howden and Grimston in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the son of the Right Reverend John Cradock

John Cradock

John Cradock was an English churchman, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1772.-Background and education:...

, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron, who was in the Diplomatic Service. On 19 December 1831 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Caradoc in lieu of his patronymic. Lord Howden was the husband of the Russian princess Catherine Bagration

Catherine Bagration

Catherine Bagration , was a Russian noble, salonist and informal diplomat. She was known in contemporary Europe for her beauty, love affairs and adventurous life style...

 (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 :...

's widow). Both baronies became extinct on his death on 9 October 1873.

Barons Howden (1819/1831)

• John Francis 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....
  
   (1759–1839)
• John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden
  John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden
  John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, , Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy at Madrid, Spain, 1850–1858, was the son of General John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, GCB , a British peer, John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, (1799–1873), Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy...
  
  (1799–1873)