CAPELL, Algernon (1670-1710) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 28 Dec. 1670, 5th but 1st surv. s. Arthur Capell, earl of Essex and Elizabeth, da. Algernon Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland. educ. ?Foubert’s Academy 1680; Evelyn Diary, iv. 201. travelled abroad (Italy, Geneva, France, Low Countries) 1687-9. Add. 40629, ff. 199-218. m. 28 Feb. 1692 (with £10,000), Herts. ALS, DE/P/F97, earl of Portland’s case. Mary (d.1726), da. of Willem Bentinck, earl of Portland, and 1st w. Anne, da. of Sir Edward Villiers, 1s. 2da. d. 10 Jan. 1710; will 2 Aug. 1709, pr. 20 June 1710. TNA, PROB 11/516.

Offices Held

Gent. of the bedchamber 1691 – 1702; PC 1708 – d.

Ld. lt. Herts. 1692 – d., Tower Hamlets 1707 – d.; high steward, Tewkesbury1698; Add. 72483, f. 166. freeman and free burgess, Tewkesbury, 1699; Glos. Archives, D747/5. constable of the Tower 1707–d. CTB, 1706–7, p. 253.

Col. dragoons 1693 – d.; brig.-gen. 1702; maj.-gen. 1704; lt.-gen. 1707. Herts. ALS, DE/M/269–70.

Parlimentarian

CAPELL, Algernon (1670-1710)

Associated with: Cassiobury House, Herts.; Hadham Hall, Herts.; Pall Mall., Whitehall.

Likenesses

oil on canvas after Sir G. Kneller, c.1700, NPG 143; oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, 1705, NPG 3207.

Author

Handley, Stuart

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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