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.
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.Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 53rd edition, Spottiswoode & Co., 1913, p. 195The Dana Family in America, Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Wright & Potter, 1956, pp. 391-392 The Capper family, mainly lawyers and clergymen, were landed gentry, of Lyston Court, Ross, Herefordshire.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fifth edition, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison, 1875, p. 204 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.Bromyard: A Local History, Joseph Gordon Hillaby, Bromyard and District Local History Society, 1970, pp. 47, 50
Career A stockbroker, Capper served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World War II.The Navy List for December 1939, corrected to 18th November, 1939, H.M. Stationery Office, 1939, p. 385The Fords of Ford Green, 2nd edition, E. H. R. Ford, C. de L. W. fforde, privately printed, 1983
Later life Capper lived at Polstead, Suffolk. His daughter, Romayne (1936–1985), married into the family of the Earls of Bradford.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 482 His younger brother, Neston Dana Ord Capper (born 1911), of Lower Hope, Ullingswick, was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1971.The Dana Family in America, Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Wright & Potter, 1956, p. 392The London Gazette, 29 January 1971, p. 1016 URL= https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45291/page/1016/data.pdf
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