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title="Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham">Hon. Thomas de Grey</a><br /><a href="/wiki/George_Johnstone_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer)">George Johnstone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Sinclair,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet">John Sinclair</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Thomas_Ellis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Thomas Ellis (page does not exist)">John Thomas Ellis</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)">Westminster</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1779–1780<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham-Clinton,_3rd_Duke_of_Newcastle-under-Lyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne">Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pelham-Clinton,_3rd_Duke_of_Newcastle" title="Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle">Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Stanhope,_3rd_Earl_of_Harrington" title="Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington">Viscount Petersham</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Brydges_Rodney,_1st_Baron_Rodney" class="mw-redirect" title="George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney">Sir George Brydges Rodney, Bt</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_James_Fox" title="Charles James Fox">Charles James Fox</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">George Capell</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1757-11-13</span>)</span>13 November 1757<br /><a href="/wiki/Watford" title="Watford">Watford</a>, Hertfordshire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">23 April 1839<span style="display:none">(1839-04-23)</span> (aged 81)<br />Watford, Hertfordshire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sarah,_Countess_of_Essex" title="Sarah, Countess of Essex">Sarah Bazett</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="6 June 1786">1786</span>; died 1838)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"> <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Stephens,_Countess_of_Essex" title="Catherine Stephens, Countess of Essex">Catherine Stephens</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="14 April 1838">1838</span>)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen_Capel" title="Thomas Bladen Capel">Thomas Bladen Capel</a> (half-brother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Capell,_4th_Earl_of_Essex" title="William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex">William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex</a><br />Frances Hanbury-Williams</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Commissioned the redesign of <a href="/wiki/Cassiobury_House" title="Cassiobury House">Cassiobury House</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex</b> <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" title="Society of Antiquaries of London">FSA</a> (13 November 1757 – 23 April 1839) was an English aristocrat and politician, and styled <b>Viscount Malden</b> until 1799. His surname was <b>Capell</b> until 1781. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg/220px-Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg/330px-Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg/440px-Joshua_Reynolds_portrait_of_George_and_Elizabeth_Capel_1768.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3083" data-file-height="3816" /></a><figcaption>1768 portrait by Sir <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds" title="Joshua Reynolds">Joshua Reynolds</a> of George Capel, aged 10, with his sister, Elizabeth Capel.</figcaption></figure> <p>George Capell was the eldest son and heir of <a href="/wiki/William_Capell,_4th_Earl_of_Essex" title="William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex">William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex</a> (1732–1799), from his first marriage to Frances Hanbury-Williams. After his mother's death from childbirth in 1759, his father remarried to Harriet Bladen (a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen" title="Thomas Bladen">Thomas Bladen</a> of <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury Abbey</a>). From his father's second marriage, he was the elder half-brother of <a href="/wiki/William_Capel_(sportsman)" title="William Capel (sportsman)">William Robert Capel</a> and Admiral <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bladen_Capel" title="Thomas Bladen Capel">Thomas Bladen Capel</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> and one of <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Nelson%27s_Band_of_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson's Band of Brothers">Band of Brothers</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-EarlEssex_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarlEssex-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His paternal grandparents were <a href="/wiki/William_Capell,_3rd_Earl_of_Essex" title="William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex">William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Capell,_Countess_of_Essex_(1704-1784)" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (1704-1784)">Lady Elizabeth Russell</a> (a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Wriothesley_Russell,_2nd_Duke_of_Bedford" title="Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford">Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford</a>). His mother was the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hanbury_Williams" title="Charles Hanbury Williams">Charles Hanbury Williams</a> and Lady Francis Coningsby (a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Coningsby,_1st_Earl_Coningsby" title="Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby">Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-EarlEssex_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarlEssex-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg/220px-Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg/330px-Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg/440px-Hampton_Court_-_1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1127139.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="388" /></a><figcaption>Hampton Court, Herefordshire</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Neale(1818)_p2.114_-_Cashiobury,_Hertfordshore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg/220px-Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg/330px-Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg/440px-Neale%281818%29_p2.114_-_Cashiobury%2C_Hertfordshore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1808" data-file-height="1208" /></a><figcaption>1818 illustration of Cassiobury House after Coningsby's rebuilding</figcaption></figure> <p>George Capell was educated at <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi_College,_Cambridge" title="Corpus Christi College, Cambridge">Corpus Christi College, Cambridge</a>, receiving his MA in 1777. In 1781 he took the additional name of <b>Coningsby</b> on succeeding to the <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court_Castle" title="Hampton Court Castle">Hampton Court, Herefordshire</a> estate of his grandmother, Lady Francis Hanbury-Williams, née Coningsby.<sup id="cite_ref-Venn_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venn-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later (1810) sold the estate to John Arkwright, the grandson of the inventor and industrialist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Arkwright" title="Richard Arkwright">Richard Arkwright</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was one of the two members of parliament for <a href="/wiki/Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)">Westminster</a> from 1779 to 1780, a member for <a href="/wiki/Lostwithiel_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)">Lostwithiel</a> from 1781 to 1784, for <a href="/wiki/Okehampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Okehampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Okehampton</a> from 1785 to 1790, and for <a href="/wiki/Radnor_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Radnor (UK Parliament constituency)">Radnor</a> from 1794 to 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-Venn_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venn-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 March 1799 Capel-Coningsby succeeded his father as 5th <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Essex" title="Earl of Essex">Earl of Essex</a>. He served as <a href="/wiki/Recorder_(legal_office)" class="mw-redirect" title="Recorder (legal office)">Recorder</a> and <a href="/wiki/High_steward_(civic)" title="High steward (civic)">High Steward</a> of <a href="/wiki/Leominster" title="Leominster">Leominster</a> in 1802, and as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Herefordshire" title="Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire">Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire</a> from 1802 to 1817. He became a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" title="Society of Antiquaries of London">Society of Antiquaries</a> in 1801, and received an honorary <a href="/wiki/D.C.L." class="mw-redirect" title="D.C.L.">D.C.L.</a> from <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> in 1810.<sup id="cite_ref-Venn_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venn-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon his succession to the title of Earl of Essex, he set about a major reconstruction of the <a href="/wiki/Family_seat" title="Family seat">family seat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cassiobury_House" title="Cassiobury House">Cassiobury House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Watford" title="Watford">Watford</a>, Hertfordshire, engaging the services of the architect <a href="/wiki/James_Wyatt" title="James Wyatt">James Wyatt</a> and landscape designer <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Repton" class="mw-redirect" title="Humphrey Repton">Humphrey Repton</a> to develop the house and grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Essex was noted as a major patron of the arts and was responsible for building up a large fine art collection at Cassiobury.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An obituary of Essex in 1839 records that "his Lordship has richly embellished his house at Cassiobury, as well as his town mansion in Belgrave Square, with numerous choice works of our native painters", and that he had entertained a number of noted British artists of the day at Cassiobury and commissioned works from them, including <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Pugin" title="Augustus Pugin">Augustus Pugin</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Callcott_Horsley" title="John Callcott Horsley">John Callcott Horsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Wilkie_(artist)" title="David Wilkie (artist)">David Wilkie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Henry_Landseer" class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Henry Landseer">Edwin Henry Landseer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Estates">Estates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Estates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lord Malden inherited the Earl of Ranelagh estates from his mother, including extensive lands in Ireland in Co. Roscommon (the town of Roscommon and surrounding townlands) Co. Meath (mostly around the Navan area) and Co Dublin (in the Swords area).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby,_Watford_St_Mary.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg/220px-Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg/330px-Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg/440px-Memorial_to_Harriet_Capel-Coningsby%2C_Watford_St_Mary.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Mural monument to Harriet (Mrs Ford) (1808-1837), illegitimate daughter of George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, in the Essex Chapel, St Mary's Church, Watford</figcaption></figure> <p>George Capel-Coningsby was twice married.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first marriage was on 6 June 1786, as her second husband, to <a href="/wiki/Sarah,_Countess_of_Essex" title="Sarah, Countess of Essex">Sarah Bazett</a>. Sarah, a widow of Edward Stephenson, was the daughter of Henry William Bazett of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena" title="Saint Helena">Saint Helena</a> and Clarissa Penelope Pritchard. Sarah was a talented and prolific artist, known as "Sarah, Viscountess Malden", and from 1799 as "Sarah, Countess of Essex",<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who specialised in making watercolour copies of old portraits and other paintings, and her surviving copies in many instances are the only evidence of the now lost originals. George outlived Sarah, who died in 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-EarlEssex_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarlEssex-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Sarah's death, on 14 April 1838 Essex married the opera singer <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Stephens,_Countess_of_Essex" title="Catherine Stephens, Countess of Essex">Kitty Stephens</a>, a daughter of Edward Stephens.<sup id="cite_ref-EarlEssex_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarlEssex-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lord Essex died on 23 April 1839 at Cassiobury, aged 81, and was buried at <a href="/wiki/Watford" title="Watford">Watford</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Venn_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venn-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leaving behind his operatic widow, Kitty Stephens, who was now the Countess Dowager.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because he had no son of his own, his Earldom and estates passed to a nephew, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Algernon_Capell,_6th_Earl_of_Essex" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Algernon Capell, 6th Earl of Essex">Arthur Algernon Capell</a>, the eldest son of his half-brother John Thomas Capell.<sup id="cite_ref-EarlEssex_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EarlEssex-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Illegitimate_daughter">Illegitimate daughter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Illegitimate daughter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He had an illegitimate daughter, Harriet (1808–1837), who married <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ford_(English_writer)" title="Richard Ford (English writer)">Richard Ford</a> (d. 1858) of Heavitree, Devon.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Earl erected a mural monument to Harriet in the Essex Chapel of St Mary's Church, Watford. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Capel-Coningsby,_5th_Earl_of_Essex&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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