Posts Tagged arthur capel

Arthur J. Capel, Boy Capel’s father - Posted December 4, 2011

Following is information I have collected regarding Arthur J. Capel, Boy Capel’s father. Most of the popular biographies of Coco Chanel I have seen repeat inaccurate speculations about Boy Capel’s origins and parentage. However I have found that the information is there to be discovered if one is willing to delve in to publicly accessible […]


Arthur “Boy” Capel’s Shipping Line - Posted December 3, 2011

Captain Arthur Edward “Boy” Capel  CBE  (b 1881, d. 22 December 1919) Here is a collection of information I have collected in my searches for information about the Chanel – Boy Capel connection. We can determine that Arthur Edward “Boy” Capel was a man of means coming from a well-to-do family whose learned his trade […]