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William Jennings "Bill" Capell (born 9 August 1952), an American retired grocery clerk from Yuba City, California, is the heir presumptive to the Earldom of Essex. He will become the 12th earl if the current earl, Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex (currently 79 and unmarried), predeceases him without in-wedlock male issue. [1]
Capell had considered renouncing the earldom if it would require him to give up his United States citizenship[ citation needed ] (under the United Kingdom's Peerage Act 1963, a person may disclaim a hereditary peerage). U.S. law requires only government officeholders without congressional authorization and persons wishing to become naturalized citizens, however, to renounce titles of nobility. As Capell is in neither category, there would be no legal impediment to his use of the title as a U.S. citizen; indeed there is precedent in the case of the Earl of Wharncliffe, currently a Maine construction worker.
Like the sixth and later earls, Capell is descended from the younger son of the fourth Earl. His father, Bladen Horace Capell, claimed the title after the ninth earl died in 1981, but Robert de Vere Capell (1920–2005) eventually proved that his ancestor, Algernon, was older than Bladen's ancestor Adolphus and thus took his seat in the House of Lords in 1989.
Capell has two children:
If Capell succeeds to the earldom, his son will acquire the courtesy title Viscount Malden, and his daughter will become Lady Jennifer Cabrera.
In 2005, Capell made his first visit to England with his wife, daughter, and son-in-law. The visit was televised on the tabloid show Inside Edition .<ref name="latimes"\>
(Frances Hanbury Williams, d.1759) | William Anne Capell, 4th Earl | Harriet Bladen d.1821 | |||||||||||||||||||||
George Capell, 5th Earl | The Hon. John Capel m. Lady Caroline Paget | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Capell, 6th Earl m. Lady Caroline Beauclerk | The Hon. Algernon Capell m. Caroline Paget | The Hon. Adolphus Capell m. Charlotte Maynard | |||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur de Vere Capell, Viscount Malden m. Emma Meux | Charles Capell m. Alice Bellairs | Rev. Horatio Bladen Capell m. Ada Augusta Howkins | |||||||||||||||||||||
George de Vere Capell, 7th Earl m. Eleanor Hartford | Arthur de Vere Capell m. Alice Currie | Horace Capell m. Clara Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||||
Algernon de Vere Capell, 8th Earl m. Mary Stewart Freeman | Robert de Vere Capell, 10th Earl m. Doris Tomlinson | Bladen Ozro Capell m. Madge Crawford | |||||||||||||||||||||
Reginald de Vere Capell, 9th Earl | Paul de Vere Capell, 11th Earl | Bladen Horace Capell m. Mae Walley | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, PC, also spelt Capel, of Cassiobury House, Watford, Hertfordshire, was an English statesman.
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