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Lord Essex was born in 1920, was the son of [[Arthur de Vere Capell]] and [[Alice Capell]] née Currie. His father died when he was three. He spent some time in an orphanage, where he was bewildered when the head told him he would be the Earl of Essex someday. This interest was revived when many years later, he received a newspaper clipping from a friend saying that the heir to the Earls of Essex may be an American, Bladen Horace Capell. This lead to an exhausting search by de Vere Capell with much correspondence with many distant and formerly unknown relatives. Eventually, he managed to prove that his great-grandfather, Algernon Capell, was older than Bladen's great-grandfather, Adolphus Capell.

Capell married Doris Margaret Tomlinson, daughter of George Frederick Tomlinson, in [[1942]]. They had one child, [[Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex|Paul]], later the 11th Earl of Essex.

When the 9th Earl died in 1981, it took eight years for Robert to be permitted to take his seat in the [[House of Lords]], a seat which he lost due to the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]. He died in [[2005]], and was succeeded as Earl of Essex by his son [[Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex|Paul]].

When the 9th Earl died in 1981, it took eight years for Robert to be permitted to take his seat in the [[House of Lords]], a seat which he lost due to the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]. He died in [[2005]], and was succeeded as Earl of Essex by his son [[Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex|Paul]].

This chart shows the relation between the 9th Earl of Essex and the 10th Earl.

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Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex The Hon. John Capel

= Lady Caroline BeauclerkPaget

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Arthur de VereArthur Capell, Viscount6th Earl of Essex Malden The Hon. Algernon Capell

= EmmaLady MeuxCaroline Beauclerk = Caroline Paget = Caroline Paget

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George Arthur de Vere Capell, 7th EarlViscount ofMalden Essex Charles Capell

= EleanorEmma Meux Hartford = Alice Bellairs

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Algernon George de Vere Capell, 8th7th Earl of Essex Arthur de Vere Capell

= MaryEleanor Hartford Stewart Freeman = Alice Currie

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ReginaldAlgernon de Vere Capell, 9th8th Earl of Essex [[Robert Capell, 10th Earl of Essex|Robert de Vere Capell, 10th Earl of Essex]]

= Mary Stewart Freeman

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Reginald de Vere Capell, 9th Earl of Essex

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