HOWDEN. 267 HOWDEN OF GRIMSTON AND SPALDINGTON AIS'D OF CRADOCKSTOWN, also HOWDEN OF UOWDES AND GRIMSTON. Barony [L] -) 1. JoiUi FtUXClS CltADOCK, only s. pud h. of Jollll ], 1819. I Ckadock, Archbishop of IhMlu liJJSt-TS) by Vary, da. of
- William Blayi'vin, ot' Boston, «o» Lincoln, was 6. 11 Aug., 1759,
Barony [L'.K.i • in Henrietta street(', Dublin (when }j iis Esther was Bishop of i lK'jl I Kilmore) ; entered the army, 1777, becoming finally ,18llj J General. Ho dUtiugltiished himself in 17l'3 at the capture uf the French West Indian Islands, being wounded at the Capture, (if Martinique, and receiving the thanks of Pari, J was Quarter Matter Geo. (with the rank of Major Ueu ) ill Ireland, 17a7, and was of great assistance in s r.pprcssilig the Irish Rebellion, was M.P. (I.) for Ologher, 1785-90; for Caatlebar, 1790-K7 ; for Midleton, 1798-99; and for 'ihomastown, 1799-1800. lie served under Aber- ciumby in Egypt, and was at the battles ot' Aboukir aud Alexamlria in March 1803 ; X night of the Crescent in Turkey; K..6. 1(1 Feb. 1$08, becoming 2 Jan. 1610 G.C.B., Commander in Chief in Madias, 1803-07; was in command ,as Lieut, Gen.) in 1808 of the troops in Poitugal, but was superseded by Sir Arthur Wcllesley ; Gov. of the Cape of Good Hope ( h ) 181 1-12. He hail been Col. of the 127tb Foot, of the 71st Light Infantry, and in 1S0U of the 63d Foot, lie was it. 19 Oct. L819(*>, BAROK HuWDENf-; OF GRIMSTON AND BPALDINGTON AND OF CUA UOCKSTOWN, co. Kildare [I.], and 12 years later was cr. 10 Sep. 1831i^, BARON HOWDEN UF HOWDEN AND UBIMSTON, co. York [U.K.]. By royal lie. Ill Dec. 1831, be took for himself and his issue the name of Ctnadocf) in lieu of that of Ceadock. He m. 17 Nov. 1798, at St. Peter's, Dublin, Theodosia Sarah Frances, 3d da. of John (MKADB), 1st E.uiL OV Clanwillia.m [L], by Theodosia, da. and b. uf ftobert Hawkins Maoii.i.. He (/. in his 80th year at 13 Hereford street, Park laue, Midx., 26 July, and was bur. 1 Aug. 1830, at Keusal Green. Will pr. Jan. 1810. His widow d. at St. Leonards on Sea, 13 Dec. 1S53, aged 80, and was bur. at Keusal Green afds. Admoti. Jau. ISot. M.I. to both at Kirkby wharfe. II. 1839 'J. Joux llouAUT (Cahadoc), Baron Howden of to Gltl.MSTON AND SrALDl.NOTON AND UF L'KAIIOCKSTOUN [L], also BaIION Howuen ok HuwDtN AND Guimston [U.K.J, only s. and b., b. at St. 1878. Stephen's Green, mi bap. 10 Oct. 179!», at St. Peters, Dublin; entered the army lSlo (bciug Aide do Camp 1817-18 to the Duke of Wellington) and became finally, 1880, Lieut. General. He was M.P. for Dundalk. 1830-31. Entering the Diplomatic Service he was in 1 82 1 attache at Berlin, and subsequently at Paris; was wounded at the Battle of Nayarino in 1827, and at Antwerp**; in 1832, at both of which, as also in 1831 to the Spanish army in the Basque provinces, be was Military Commissioner. He MM to the pceunjc, £0 July 1889. He was Equerry to H.K.H. the Duchess of Kent, 1811-01 ; was Minister at Bio Janeiro, 1847-50 ; and AMBASSADOB at Maduid 1850*58. He had been elected (*) The will of his mother, Mary Cradock (pr. 1 May, 1820) states both date aud place of his birth. ( b ) The town of Cradoek in that colony was founded by him. (<=) The extinctions used for this creation uudor the Act of Union [f.] were the Viscounty of Cullen, the Earldom of Upper Ossory, and the Barony of SSnderlin. (<•) Grimston Park (which he had purchased) was in the parish of Kirkby wharfe, in the district kuowu as llowdcnsliirc, iu Yorkshire. ( c ) This was one of the Coronation Peerages uf William IV., for a list of which nee vol. ii., p. 818, uote •' a," sub. " Cloncurry." O This is said to have been in honour of Varactacua and of (the more modem) Caradoa .Prince of North Wales), from whom his lordship considered himself to be descended in the male line, in tho petition be slates that "according to tradition " be " derived his descent from an individual who bore and irsed the name of Caradoc." (s) " It was only recently that ladies wore the »i««>/o: d la OttradoC, because Col. Caradoc (" k heo. u Uuradoc," an he was called) bud been wounded at the liege of Antwerp, aud for some months appeared with the sleovu of his coat cut open and tied with ribbons ; and the ladies bail their sleeves slashed iu a similar manner." See Lord Lamingtun's " JJuyt of the Dandies"
