General John Francis Cradock, 1st Baron Howden was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator.
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Nxuba, also known as Cradock, is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, 250 kilometres by road north of Gqeberha. The town is the administrat
John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
…1814, elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Howden in 1819, and to the Peerage of the United Kingdom under the same title in 1831. The town of Cradock, South Africa, is named after him. On 17 November 1798, Cradock married Lady Theodosia Sarah Frances Meade (b. c. 1773; d. 13 Dec 1853), Lady Theodosia was the…
Cradock, South Africa
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Sign on the outskirts of Nxuba