Thomas Bladen Capel
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Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen Capel was a Royal Navy officer whose distinguished service in the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 earned him rapid promotion and great accla
A cartoon showing Nelson and his officers celebrating with the men aboard HMS Vanguard after the victory at the Battle of the Nile
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
Thomas Bladen Capel
…Caroline Harriett Capel, Admiral Bladen Capel's great niece, and refers to times spent with Bladen Capel and his wife at Little Cassiobury. She lived at Cassiobury House and they lived in Little Cassiobury. Designed by Elizabeth, Lady Wilbraham, in the late 17th century it was built as the Cassiobury Estate's dower…
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