About William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
Lived 1697 – 1743 (aged 45). William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex was a British courtier, diplomat and politician.
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex (11 January 16978 January 1743) was a British courtier and diplomat who served as the British ambassador to Sardinia from 1732 to 1736.
Early life He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Essex and Lady Mary Bentinck. His younger sister, Lady Mary Capel, married Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton. After his father's death, his mother remarried Rt. Hon. Sir Conyers Darcy (d. 1758), son of Hon. John Darcy.
Lord Essex was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales from to 1727; Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1722 to . He was made a Knight of the Thistle on 2 February 1724 but resigned in 1738. He served as Ranger of St James's Park from 1727 to 1739 and Ranger of Hyde Park from 1728 to 1739.
Descendants Through his second daughter, he was a grandfather of two girls, Maria Eleanor Forbes who married John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, and Katherine Elizabeth Forbes who married William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington.
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William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex was born on 11 January 1697.
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William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex died on 8 January 1743.
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William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex was a courtier, diplomat and politician.
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