Capes, George

Capes, George, an English Baptist minister, was born in 1776. He united with the Little Prescott Street Church, London, in 1797, being baptized by the celebrated Abraham Worth. He entered the ministry in 1808, and became pastor of the Church in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, and afterwards in Loughborough, Leicestershire, from 1816 to 1826. His third and last settlement was in Farringdon, Berkshire, where he died, Mayr 29,1835. See (Lond.) Baptist Handbook, 1836, p. 17. (J.C.S.)