| Nigel Capel Cure | |
| Fullname: | George Nigel Capel Cure |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1908 |
| Birth Place: | Kensington, London, England |
| Death Place: | Harlow, Essex, England |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Leg-break |
| Club1: | Essex |
| Year1: | 1929 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 6 |
| Bat Avg1: | 3.00 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 6 |
| Deliveries1: | 66 |
| Wickets1: | 2 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 29.00 |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | 2/58 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 1 March |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4800/4800.html CricketArchive |
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.
Capel Cure was born in Kensington. 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. 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.[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 and deputy lord-lieutenant of the county from 1958 to 1978. He lived at Blake Hall, near Ongar.[1] He died in Harlow.