Ingram Capper

Ingram Ord Capper (17 November 1907 – 12 July 1986) was a British sports shooter. He competed in the 100 m running deer event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]

Ingram Capper
Personal information
Born(1907-11-17)17 November 1907
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
Died12 July 1986(1986-07-12) (aged 78)
Colchester, Essex, England
Sport
SportSports shooting

Early life

Capper was the elder son (there being also two daughters) of Captain Robert Harcourt Ord Capper, Prince of Wales's North Staffordshire Regiment, of The Northgate, Herefordshire, by his wife Lilian Georgette, eldest daughter of Conservative politician Wilson Noble, of Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, Berkshire. Lilian Capper was a granddaughter of the American painter William Parsons Winchester Dana.[2][3] The Capper family, mainly lawyers and clergymen, were landed gentry, of Lyston Court, Ross, Herefordshire.[4] He was noted, as a member of the Bromyard and District Local History Society, to be a descendant of Christopher Capper, of Bromyard, Herefordshire, bailiff of that place, a grazier, and owner of the White Horse Inn on Cruxwell Street.[5]

Career

A stockbroker, Capper served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World War II.[6][7]

Later life

Capper lived at Polstead, Suffolk. His daughter, Romayne (1936–1985), married into the family of the Earls of Bradford.[8] His younger brother, Neston Dana Ord Capper (b. 1911), of Lower Hope, Ullingswick, was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1971.[9][10]

References
  1. "Ingram Capper". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  2. Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 53rd edition, Spottiswoode & Co., 1913, p. 195
  3. The Dana Family in America, Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Wright & Potter, 1956, pp. 391-392
  4. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fifth edition, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1875, p. 204
  5. Bromyard: A Local History, Joseph Gordon Hillaby, Bromyard and District Local History Society, 1970, pp. 47, 50
  6. The Navy List for December 1939, corrected to 18th November, 1939, H.M. Stationery Office, 1939, p. 385
  7. The Fords of Ford Green, 2nd edition, E. H. R. Ford, C. de L. W. fforde, privately printed, 1983
  8. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 482
  9. The Dana Family in America, Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Wright & Potter, 1956, p. 392
  10. The London Gazette, 29 January 1971, p. 1016 URL= https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45291/page/1016/data.pdf
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