Capper, George (1790-1815)

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Adm. pens. (age 15) at TRINITY, Dec. 19, 1783. S. of Francis, R. of Earl Soham, Suffolk. B. there Dec. 25, 1767. Schools, St Paul's and Bury, Suffolk. ' Matric. Michs. 1784; Scholar, 1787; B.A. 1789; M.A. 1792. Fellow, 1791. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Apr. 4, 1790; priest, June 3, 1792; C. of Monk Soham, 1790. A pluralist. R. of Little Blakenham, Suffolk, 1794-1815. R. of Knoddishall, 1799-1801. R. of Gosbeck St Mary, 1803-1813; never resided. V. of Wherstead, 1815-47. Chairman of the Suffolk Quarter Sessions, Eastern Division. J.P. Married Anne, dau. of George Reid, Esq., of Jamaica, 1805. A well-known hunting parson; for some time preserved the whole of the Wherstead estate for his friend, John Vernon; also a keen yachtsman, having had three yachts built under his own eye at the old shipyard beyond Bourne Bridge. Died s.p. July 14, 1847, at Montagu Place, London. Buried at Wherstead. (F. Barham Zincke, Wherstead; G. Mag., 1847, II. 217.)

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