Cassiobury House
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Cassiobury House was a country house in Cassiobury Park, Watford, England. It was the ancestral seat of the Earls of Essex. Originally a Tudor building, dating from 1546 for Sir Richard Morrison, it w
Cassiobury House (The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Francis Orpen Morris)
Arthur Capell, rebuilder of Cassiobury 1677–80
The public park today
A 2009 view of the former site of Cassiobury House, just behind the Cassiobury Tennis Club
George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, was a British aristocrat. He succeeded to the title Earl of Essex in 1892.
Cassiobury House
…a regular feature at the weekends. The public were allowed to ride and walk through the grounds, but had to apply for a ticket in advance. In 1893 the 7th Earl of Essex, George Capell, married an American heiress, Adele Grant, the daughter of the New York steam locomotive magnate, David Beach Grant. The Earl's wealth was, by the…
Cassiobury House as it appeared during the 7th Earl's tenure
Portrait of his second wife, by John Singer Sargent, 1906.