Nigel Capel-Cure

George Nigel Capel-Cure JP DL TD (28 September 1908 – 8 August 2004^[1]) was an English cricketer.^[2] 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.

Nigel Capel Cure

Personal information
Full name	George Nigel Capel Cure
Born	(1908-09-28)28 September 1908 Kensington, London, England
Died	8 August 2004(2004-08-08) (aged 95) Harlow, Essex, England
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Leg-break
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1929	Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 6 Batting average 3.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 6 Balls bowled 66 Wickets 2 Bowling average 29.00 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 2/58 Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: CricketArchive, 1 March 2012

Capel Cure was born in Kensington.^[2] He was educated at Eton College^[1] and Trinity College, Cambridge^[1]

Capel Cure played just one game for Essex, in the 1929 season, of a drawn match against his alma mater Cambridge University.^[3] Batting at number four,^[3] Capel Cure was trapped leg-before wicket by Trevil Morgan in his first innings for a duck,^[3] and scored just six runs in the second innings before being caught and bowled by Gordon Chandler.^[3]

Bowling, he took 2–58 in the Essex first innings;^[3] his wickets were of Tom Killick^[3] (lbw, but only after he'd scored a double century) and George Kemp-Welch^[3] (also lbw) in the Cambridge 1st innings. Cambridge did not complete their 2nd innings.^[3]

Capel Cure's brother-in-law was Gerald Barry,^[2] who played one first-class match for the Combined Services in 1922.^[4]

Capel Cure was a landowner in Shropshire and Essex. He received the Territorial Decoration.^[1] He was High Sheriff of Essex in 1951–52^[1] and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county from 1958 to 1978.^[1] He lived at Blake Hall, near Ongar.^[1] He died in Harlow.^[2]