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George Nigel Capel-Cure JP DL TD (28 September 1908 – 8 August 2004'CAPEL CURE, (George) Nigel', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 March 2012) was an English . He was a left-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played a single game in his entire career for Essex during the 1929 season.
Capel Cure was born in Kensington. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge
Capel Cure played just one game for Essex, in the 1929 season, of a drawn match against his alma mater Cambridge University. Batting at number four, Capel Cure was trapped leg-before wicket by Trevil Morgan in his first innings for a duck, and scored just six runs in the second innings before being caught and bowled by Gordon Chandler.
Bowling, he took 2–58 in the Essex first innings; his wickets were of Tom Killick (lbw, but only after he'd scored a double century) and George Kemp-Welch (also lbw) in the Cambridge 1st innings. Cambridge did not complete their 2nd innings.
Capel Cure's brother-in-law was Gerald Barry, who played one first-class match for the Combined Services in 1922.
Capel Cure was a landowner in Shropshire and Essex. He received the Territorial Decoration. He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1951–52 and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county from 1958 to 1978. He lived at Blake Hall, near Chipping Ongar. He died in Harlow.
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