William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, KG

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, PC (11 January 1697 – 8 January 1743) was the son of the 2nd Earl of Essex

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Capell was one of the founding governors of the charity, the Foundling Hospital

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, created in October 1739 to care for abandoned children

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On 27 November 1718, he married Lady Jane Hyde, a daughter of the 4th Earl of Clarendon

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 and they had two children:

• Charlotte Capell (d. 1790), married the Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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   and had issue.
• Lady Mary Capell (d. 9 Apr 1782), married Admiral Hon. John Forbes
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   (a son of George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard
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  ). They had two daughters, Maria Eleanor Forbes who married John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
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   and Katherine Elizabeth Forbes who married William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington
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Lady Jane died in 1724 and William married Lady Elizabeth Russell, a daughter of the 2nd Duke of Bedford

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 on 3 February 1726 and they had one son, William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex (1732–1799).