Arthur Algernon Capell was an English aristocrat who succeed to the title Earl of Essex in 1839.
The game of Croquet, popularised by the 6th Earl of Essex
Cassiobury House (1888), as it appeared during the 6th Earl's life
Capell is buried in the Essex Chapel at St Mary's Parish Church, Watford
George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, was a British aristocrat. He succeeded to the title Earl of Essex in 1892.
Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex
…His eldest son, Arthur de Vere Capell, Viscount Malden, had died in 1879 aged 52 and so the Earl of Essex title passed to Arthur Algernon's grandson, George Capell. He held almost 15,000 in England and Ireland…
Portrait of his second wife, by John Singer Sargent, 1906.