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 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 187 By fidelity and fortitude. ESSEX, EAKL OF. (CAPEL.) ARTHUR ALGERNON CAPEL, 6th Earl, and 7th Baron, son of the Hon. John Thomas Capel, 2nd son of the 4th Earl of Essex. Born Jan. 28th, 1803; succeeded his uncle in 1839; is a Magistrate for Hertfordshire: married 1st (1825), Lady Caroline Jeannetta Beauclerk, 3rd daugh- ter of the 8th Duke of St. Alban's, (this lady died, 1862,) and has issue, living, Suns, Arthur de Vere, Viscount Maiden, b. 1826; was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst ; entered the Army as Lieut, in Rifle Brigade, 1844, exchanged into the Koyal Horse Guards, and retired in 1852; has been Lieut. -Col. in the Herts Yeomanry Cavalry since 1854; is a Magistrate for Hertfordshire: m. 1853, Emma Martha, daughter of Sir H. Meux, 1st Bart., and has, with other issue, George Devereux de Vere, b. 1857. Resi- dence, 39, Lowndes- street, S.W. Reginald Algernon, b. 1830, m. 1858. His lordship married 2ndly (1863), Lady Louisa Caroline Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of Viscountess Dungarvan, and sister of the 9th Earl of Cork, K.P., and has issue, living, Son, Arthur Algernon, b. 1864. Dttug h ter, Beatrice Mary, b. 1870. Brothers living, Algernon Henry Champagne, b. ISO", m. 1834, Adolphus Frederic Charles Molyneux, b. 1813, m. 1834. Sinters living, Mary, b. 1808, Amelia, Patron of three livings, Watford, V. Hertfordshire. V. Warwickshire. 1811, m. 1857, (Blackwood). Rayne, R. Essex. Shuttington, Creations, Baron Capel of Hadham, l64l, Viscount Maiden and Earl of Essex, 1661, in the peerage of England. 9rms, Gules : a lion rampant, between three cross crosslets fitchee, or. (Crest, A demi-lion rampant, supporting a cross crosslet fitchee, or. Supporters, Two lions, or, ducally crowned, gules. Seat, Cassiobury-park, Watfoid, Hertfordshire, place, S.W. Club, Travellers'. Town Residence, 23, Chesham- ESSEi, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his uncle, George, D.C.L. 5th Earl of Essex, who was b. Nov. 13, 1757, succeeded his father, March 5, 1799: m. 1st, June 6, 1786, Sarah, daughter of Henry Bazett, Esq. of St. Helena, (she d. 18*8) ; his lordship m. 2udly, April 14, 1838, Catherine, daughter of E. Stephens, Esq. of Leadweli; and d. April 23, 183y, without issue from either marriage. ESSEX, CATHERINE, Countess of, daughter of Edward Stephens, Esq. b. 1794:. m. 1838, the 5th Earl of Essex, who d. 1839. Residence, 9, Belgrave-square, S.W. Euston, Earl of, title borne by the Duke of Grafton. Evans-Freke, family name of Baron Carbery.