Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell

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Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell KB, PC (6 March 163830 May 1696) was a seventeenth century English peer.

Born in Hadham Parva, Hertfordshire, he was the son of the 1st Baron Capell and Elizabeth Morrison, and brother of the 1st Earl of Essex.

Invested as a Knight of the Order of the Bath on 23 April 1661, he was a member of the Irish Privy Council from April 1673 to March 1684 or 1685. Capell was also First Lord of the Admiralty between February 1679 to February 1681, and Lord of the Treasury and Member of Parliament for Cockermouth between 1689 and 1690. A member of the English Privy Council from 22 April 1679 to 31 January 1679 or 1980, he was invested again on 14 February 1688 or 1689. On 11 April 1692, he was enobled as Baron Capell, of Tewksbury in the County of Gloucester. One year later he became Lord Justice of Ireland and in turn a Privy Councillor of Ireland in June 1693. In 1695 and 1696, Capell was finally Lord Deputy of Ireland. He died, aged 58 in Chapelizod, County Dublin and was buried on 8 September 1696 in Hadham, Hertfordshire.

On 16 February 1658 or 1659, he married Dorothy Bennet, daughter of Richard Bennet. Their marriage was childless and so his title became extinct with Capell's deaths.

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Military offices
Preceded by
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
(Lord High Admiral)
First Lord of the Admiralty
1679–1681
Succeeded by
The Earl of Nottingham
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Unknown
Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
with Richard Dowdeswell 1660–1673
Sir Francis Russell, Bt 1673–1685

1660–1685
Succeeded by
Richard Dowdeswell
Sir Francis Russell, Bt
Preceded by
Sir Daniel Fleming
Sir Orlando Gee
Member of Parliament for Cockermouth
with Henry Fletcher

1689–1690
Succeeded by
Sir Wilfrid Lawson
Sir Orlando Gee
Preceded by
Richard Dowdeswell
Sir Francis Russell, Bt
Member of Parliament for Tewkesbury
with Richard Dowdeswell

1690–1692
Succeeded by
Richard Dowdeswell
Sir Francis Winnington
Political offices
Preceded by
Lords Justices
Lord Deputy of Ireland
1695–1696
Succeeded by
Lords Justices
Peerage of England
New creation Baron Capell
1692–1696
Extinct

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