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George Nigel Capel-Cure JP DL TD (28 September 1908 – 8 August 2004) was an English cricketer. 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 Ongar. He died in Harlow.

References

1. ^ ‘CAPEL CURE, (George) Nigel’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 2 March 2012
2. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
3. ^ "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.
4. "The Home of CricketArchive". cricketarchive.com.

External links

• Nigel Capel-Cure at Cricket Archive

• 1908 births
• 2004 deaths
• English cricketers
• Essex cricketers
• High sheriffs of Essex
• People educated at Eton College
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• People from Epping Forest District
• Cricketers from Essex