Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex
Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex
( 1 December 1636 – 5 February 1718; née Percy) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland.
She was the wife of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex.
Elizabeth was the subject of a portrait by court painter Sir Peter Lely.
Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (1704-1784)
Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex (1704 – 8 June 1784) was the second wife of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, and the mother of William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex.
Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford.
The earl, whose first wife Jane had died in 1724, married Elizabeth on 3 February 1726.
They had two sons and two daughters.
The only one to survive infancy was William Anne (1732-1799), who would become the 4th Earl.
She died in June 1784, aged about eighty.
A portrait of the countess by Andrea Soldi is held by Watford Museum.
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG (1 November 1680 – 26 May 1711) was an English nobleman and politician.
He was the son of William Russell, Lord Russell, and his wife Lady Rachel Wriothesley.
From 1683 until 1694, he was styled Lord Russell, and from 1695 until his accession in 1700, Marquess of Tavistock.
Russell married the rich heiress Elizabeth Howland, daughter of John Howland of Streatham, on 23 May 1695.
Shortly thereafter (13 June 1695), his grandfather, the Duke of Bedford, was created Baron Howland of Streatham to commemorate the marriage.
The couple had six children:
On 13 May 1696, Tavistock, as he then was, matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Around 1698, he began the construction of the Howland Great Wet Dock on the Thames, on some of his wife's dowry lands in Rotherhithe.
Russell held the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Middlesex between 1701 and 1711.
He was also a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III from 1701 to 1702.
After William's death, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 14 March 1702 and served as Lord High Constable of England for the coronation of Queen Anne.
Russell died in 1711, aged 30, from smallpox and was buried on 30 May 1711 in the 'Bedford Chapel' at St. Michael’s Church at Chenies, Buckinghamshire.
Swæfberht of Essex
Swæfberht of Essex was King of Essex( 715–738).
He ruled along with Saelred of Essex( 709 –746) who appointed him provisional king in 715.
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex( d 1166) was an English nobleman, the second son of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex.
Anne Yelverton
Anne Yelverton( 1628–1698) was Countess of Manchester and Countess of Halifax.
Hawise, Countess of Aumale
Hawise, Countess of Aumale( died 11 March 1214) was ruling Countess of Aumale from 1179 until 1194 with her husbands.
She was the daughter and heiress of William, Count of Aumale and Cicely, daughter and co-heiress of William fitz Duncan.
She became Countess of Essex by her marriage to William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex.
Sigered of Essex
Sigered of Essex was the last king of Essex from 798 to 825.
The son of Sigeric of Essex, Sigered became king when his father abdicated the throne.
In 812 Sigered was reduced from king to duke by his Mercian overlords.
In 825 he finally ceded the kingdom of Essex to Egbert of Wessex.
Adele Capell, Countess of Essex
Adele Capell, Countess of Essex( née Adele Grant)( born c. 1859- died 28 July 1922) was a US- born socialite who married into the British nobility.
She was also a vegetarianism activist.
Jane Capell, Countess of Essex
Jane Capell, Countess of Essex (1694 – January 1724), previously Lady Jane Hyde, was a British court official, the first wife of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.
She was the daughter of Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and his wife, the former Jane Leveson-Gower.
She married the Earl of Essex on 27 November 1718, and they had four daughters, including:
In 1722, the countess was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales.
One of her younger sisters was Catherine Hyde, who became Duchess of Queensberry, and her only brother to survive to adulthood was Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury.
Following her death in 1724, the earl remarried, his second wife being Lady Elizabeth Russell.
A portrait of the countess was painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1718.

Question: Where did Elizabeth Capell, Countess Of Essex (1704-1784)'s father graduate from?
Answer: Magdalen College