Reginald George de Vere Capell, 9th Earl of Essex
T.D. (9 October 1906 – 18 May 1981) was a British
peer.
Early life
He was the son of
Algernon George de Vere Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, and Mary Eveline Stewart Freeman.
[ He had the courtesy title Viscount Malden and was known as Reggie Malden.
He was educated at ]St Cyprian's School
St Cyprian's School was an English preparatory school for boys, which operated in the early 20th century in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Like other preparatory schools, its purpose was to train pupils to do well enough in the examinations (usual ...
in Eastbourne
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, Eton, and Magdalene College, Cambridge
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.
Career
He served in the army during World War II
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and was awarded the T.D. After the war, he began farming in Buckinghamshire
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. He retained his military connections and became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1947 and was commanding officer of the 16th Airborne Division Signals Regiment (Middlesex Yeomanry) ( Territorial Army) in 1948.[''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' volume 1 (2003), p. 1348] He became Honorary Colonel of the 16th (later 40th) Signal Regiment in 1957 and its successor, the 47th (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Regiment, in 1962.
House of Lords
Capell inherited the Earldom of Essex after his father died in 1966 and took his seat in the House of Lords
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.[ In his maiden speech in 1971, he opposed the recommendation of the ]Roskill Commission
The Roskill Commission (formally the Commission on the Third London Airport) was a UK government commission charged with looking into finding a site for a new airport for London. Chaired by High Court judge Sir Eustace Roskill, it sat from 1968 ...
for the siting of a third London airport at Cublington
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. The third airport was eventually provided by the development of Stansted Airport
Stansted Airport is an international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is located near Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, Essex, northeast of Central London.
As London's third-busiest airport, Stan ...
.
Personal life
Capell married, firstly, Mary Reeve Ward, daughter of F. Gibson Ward, on 2 March 1937. They were divorced in 1957. His second wife was Nona Isabel Miller (1906–1997), daughter of David Wilson Miller and widow of Francis Sydney Smythe of Yew tree cottage in November 1957. He had no children by either marriage.[ ] In 1967, ''Debrett's
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'' had identified Bladen Horace Capell, "a grocery clerk in Yuba City, California
Yuba City ( Maidu: ''Yubu'') is a city in Northern California and the county seat of Sutter County, California
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" eligible to become the Earl of Essex, if no other heirs could be identified."News Briefs", ''Chicago Tribune'', 17 May 1967, p3
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On his death in 1981, the title became dormant, but it was revived eight years later by a distant cousin, Robert Capell.
References
External links
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Reginald George de Vere Capell, 9th Earl of Essex (1906-1981), Army officer
at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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1906 births
1981 deaths
20th-century British nobility
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
People educated at Eton College
People educated at St Cyprian's School
Middlesex Yeomanry officers
Royal Corps of Signals officers
British Army personnel of World War II
English cricketers
Bedfordshire cricketers
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20th-century English sportsmen