Lord Howden was the husband of the Russian princess Catherine Bagration (Pyotr Bagration's widow) and moved into Grimston Park, where he rebuilt the hall.
On November 16, 1805, the nearby town of Schöngrabern was the site of a battle between the French Napoleonic troops under Joachim Murat (including general Nicolas Charles Oudinot, who was wounded) and the Russian general Pyotr Bagration (who was protecting Kutuzov's retreat north).
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After his death it passed to his son John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden who had served in the Diplomatic Service in Russia, where he married the Russian princess, Catherine Bagration, the widow of Pyotr Bagration.