Robert Capell, 10th Earl of Essex

Robert Edward de Vere Capell, 10th Earl of Essex (13 January 1920 – 5 June 2005) was the 10th Earl of Essex.

Lord Essex was born in 1920, the son of Arthur de Vere Capell and Alice Currie. His father died when he was three. He spent some time in an orphanage, where he was bewildered when the head told him he would be the Earl of Essex someday. This interest was revived when many years later, he received a newspaper clipping from a friend saying that the heir to the Earls of Essex may be an American, Bladen Horace Capell. This led to an exhaustive search by de Vere Capell with much correspondence with many distant and formerly unknown relatives. Eventually, he managed to prove that his great-grandfather Algernon Capell was the elder brother of Bladen's great-great-grandfather Adolphus Capell.

Capell married Doris Margaret Tomlinson, daughter of George Frederick Tomlinson, in 1942. They had one child, Paul, later the 11th Earl of Essex.

When the 9th Earl died in 1981, it took eight years for Robert to be permitted to take his seat in the House of Lords, a seat which he lost due to the House of Lords Act 1999. He died in 2005, and was succeeded as Earl of Essex by his son.

This chart shows the relation between the 9th Earl of Essex and the 10th Earl.

The Hon. John Capel (half-brother of 5th Earl) m. Lady Caroline Paget

Arthur Capell, 6th Earl m. Lady Caroline Beauclerk

The Hon. Algernon Capell m. Caroline Paget

The Hon. Adolphus Capell m. Charlotte Maynard

Arthur de Vere Capell, Viscount Malden m. Emma Meux

Charles Capell m. Alice Bellairs

Horatio Capell m. Ada Hawkins

George de Vere Capell, 7th Earl m. Eleanor Hartford

Arthur de Vere Capell m. Alice Currie

Horace Capell m. Clara Jackson

Algernon de Vere Capell, 8th Earl m. Mary Stewart Freeman

Robert de Vere Capell, 10th Earl m. Doris Tomlinson

Bladen Ozro Capell m. Madge Crawford

Reginald de Vere Capell, 9th Earl

Paul de Vere Capell, 11th Earl

Bladen Horace Capell m. Mae Walley

William Jennings Capell

References

• Freer, Alan (2005). Conqueror6. Retrieved June 22, 2005.
• Anonymous (June 18, 2005). The Earl of Essex. Telegraph.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Essex
• New Earl of Essex is ever so humble