| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Earl of Essex | |
| Honorific Suffix: | FSA |
| Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire | |
| Term Start: | 1802 |
| Term End: | 1817 |
| Successor: | The Lord Somers |
| Term Start2: | 1794 |
| Term End2: | 1799 |
| Predecessor2: | David Murray |
| Successor2: | Richard Price |
| Term Start3: | 1785 |
| Term End3: | 1790 |
| Predecessor3: | John Luxmoore Thomas Wiggens |
| Alongside3: | Humphrey Minchin |
| Successor3: | John Hayes St Leger Robert Ladbroke |
| Term Start4: | 1781 |
| Term End4: | 1784 |
| Predecessor4: | Hon. Thomas de Grey George Johnstone |
| Successor4: | John Sinclair John Thomas Ellis |
| Term Start5: | 1779 |
| Term End5: | 1780 |
| Predecessor5: | Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton Viscount Petersham |
| Alongside5: | Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton |
| Successor5: | Sir George Brydges Rodney, Bt Charles James Fox |
| Birth Name: | George Capell |
| Birth Date: | 1757 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Watford, Hertfordshire |
| Death Place: | Watford, Hertfordshire |
| Known For: | Commissioned the redesign of Cassiobury House |
| Nationality: | British |
| Parents: | William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex Frances Hanbury-Williams |
| Spouse: | |
| Relations: | Thomas Bladen Capel (half-brother) |
George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex FSA (13 November 1757 – 23 April 1839) was an English aristocrat and politician, and styled Viscount Malden until 1799. His surname was Capell until 1781.
George Capell was the eldest son and heir of William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex (1732–1799), from his first marriage to Frances Hanbury-Williams. After his mother's death from childbirth in 1759, his father remarried to Harriet Bladen (a daughter of Thomas Bladen of Glastonbury Abbey). From his father's second marriage, he was the elder half-brother of William Robert Capel and Admiral Thomas Bladen Capel of the Royal Navy and one of Horatio Nelson's Band of Brothers.
His paternal grandparents were William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex and Lady Elizabeth Russell (a daughter of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford). His mother was the daughter of Charles Hanbury Williams and Lady Francis Coningsby (a daughter of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby).[1]
George Capell was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving his MA in 1777. In 1781 he took the additional name of Coningsby on succeeding to the Hampton Court, Herefordshire estate of his grandmother, Lady Francis Hanbury-Williams, née Coningsby.