Reginald Capell, 9th Earl of Essex

Reginald George de Vere Capell, 9th Earl of Essex (9 October 1906 - 1981) was a British Peer.

Capell was the son of Algernon George de Vere Capell, 8th Earl of Essex and Mary Eveline Stewart Freeman. He had the courtesy title Viscount Malden, and was known as Reggie Malden. [ Henry Longhurst "My Life and Soft Times" (1971) ] . He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, and Eton. After Magdalen College, Cambridge, he had a military career. He became Honorary Colonel of the 16th & 40th Signal Regiments in 1957 and, on its replacement, of the 47th Signal Regiment in 1962. He inherited the Earldom on the death of his father in 1966.

On his death in 1981, the title became dormant, but it was revived eight years later by a distant cousin Robert Capell.

Capell married, firstly, Mary Reeve Ward, daughter of F. Gibson Ward, on 2 March 1937. They were divorced in 1957. His second wife was Nona Isabel Miller, daughter of David Wilson Miller, whom he married in November 1957. He had no children by either marriage.

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