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FANE, JOHN, 9TH EARL OF WESTMORLAND, elder son of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, previously an attorney in Bristol, and Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Kentish, Clerk in Chancery, and dau. of William Swymmer, Bristol, merchant; b. 5 May 1728; adm. Oct 1739 (Watts'); left 1745; adm. Middle Temple 9 Feb 1741/2; a Supernumary Clerk, Treasury, 26 Jun 1746-8, Under Clerk 3 May 1748 - res 7 Dec 1757; a Commissioner of Taxes 14 Apr 1756 – 2 Feb 1763; MP Lyme Regis 1 Dec 1762 - 12 Nov 1771; LLD Cambridge 3 Jul 1769; succ. father as 9th Earl of Westmorland 12 Nov 1771; DL Somerset 1761; m. 1st, 26 Mar 1758 Augusta, dau. of Lord Montagu Bertie (qv); m. 2nd, 28 May 1767 Lady Susan Gordon, dau. of Cosmo Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon; d. 26 Apr 1774. DNB.

FANE, HON. THOMAS, son of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (qv); b. 6 Jul 1760; adm. 17 Feb 1772; left Christmas 1774; Ensign, 61st Foot 4 Dec 1775; Lieut., 1st Foot 25 May 1778; Capt., 2nd Foot 7 May 1779; Brevet Maj., 22 Nov 1781; Maj., 2nd Foot 22 Jan 1783; Capt. and Lieut. -Col, 2nd Foot Guards 15 May 1783; ret., 24 Dec 1793; MP Lyme Regis 1784 - Mar 1806; a Groom of the Bedchamber from 26 Jan 1793; m. 27 Jul 1789 Anne, dau. of Richard Lowe, Locko Park, Derbs.; d. 15 Apr 1807.

FANSHAWE, CHARLES, 4TH VISCOUNT FANSHAWE (I), third son of Thomas Fanshawe, 1st Viscount Fanshawe (I), Ware Park, Hertfordshire, and his second wife Elizabeth, fourth dau. of Sir William Cokayne Kt. , Lord Mayor of London; b. 6 Feb 1642/3; at school 1657-60 (Busby’s Account Book); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 26 Apr 1663, aged 17, matr. 3 Aug 1663; MA 1665; the royal mandate for his election to a Fellowship, dated 8 Feb 1666 [check if 1665/6 or 1666/7], was disregarded by his college; adm. Inner Temple 17 Mar 1663/4; a Commissioner of Appeals in Excise 17 Aug 1677 – 20 May 1689; Capt. , Arlington’s Foot 17 Feb 1677/8; Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal 1680-4; King’s Remembrancer of the Exchequer 1687-9; succ. his nephew as 4th Viscount Fanshawe (I) 10 Oct 1687; MP Mitchell Jan 1688/9 - Sep 1689; refused to take oath of allegiance to William III; expelled from House of Commons and committed to Tower of London; d. unm. 28 Mar 1710.

FAWKES, WALTER RAMSDEN, eldest son of Walter Ramsden Beaumont Fawkes (qv); b. 2 Mar 1769; adm. 5 Feb 1781; left Whitsun 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, [add date admission or matriculation]1786; assumed surname of Fawkes in lieu of Hawksworth 2 Dec 1792, on succeeding to father’s estates; a keen agriculturist and successful breeder of cattle; an active member of the advanced section of the Whig party and prominent in the anti-slave trade movement; MP Yorkshire 1806-7; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1823; early patron and intimate friend of the painter J. M. W. Turner; part of his famous collection of works by Turner was sold at Christie’s 27 Jun 1890; author, The Chronology of the History of Modern Europe, 1810, and other works; m. 1st, 28 Aug 1794 Maria, dau. of Robert Grimston, Neswick, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 4 Jan 1816 Maria Sophia, widow of Hon. and Rev. Pierce Butler, and dau. of John Vernon, Clontarf Castle, co. Dublin; d. 24 Oct 1825. DNB.

FEILDE, PAUL, brother of William Feilde (qv); bapt. 6 Oct 1711; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1722; in school list 1727/8; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Jun 1724, called to bar 27 Oct 1737; a Judge of Sheriff Court for London and Middlesex (occurs 1760-74); Recorder of Hertford from 1762; MP Hertford 15 Jan 1770-80; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1774-5); m. 12 Feb 1763 Jane, only dau. of John Wowen, Hackney, Middlesex, sugar refiner; d. 3 Feb 1783.

FINCH, HON. CHARLES, second son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 4 Jun 1752; adm.; in school list Jun 1764; KS 1765; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1769, matr. 24 May 1769, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1769 - void 11 Nov 1772 on election as Fellow All Souls; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1772; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 May 1772; MP Castle Rising 2 Feb 1775 - May 1777, Maidstone 16 May 1777-80; m. 28 Dec 1778 Jane, eldest dau. of Watkin Wynne (qv); d. 17 Dec 1819.

FINCH, DANIEL, 7TH EARL OF WINCHILSEA AND 3RD EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, second son of Daniel Finch, 6th Earl of Winchilsea and 2nd Earl of Nottingham (qv), and his second wife; b. 24 May 1689; styled Lord Finch 1689-1730; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1726/7 and 1761); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1704, aged 15; Grand Tour 1706-11 (in Italy 1709-11); MP Rutland 1710 - 1 Jan 1729/30; Groom of the Bedchamber to George II when Prince of Wales Sep 1714-6; a Lord of the Treasury 10 Oct 1715 - 29 Feb 1716; Comptroller of the Household 24 May 1725 - May 1730; Privy Councillor 1 Jun 1725; LLD Cambridge 25 Apr 1728; succ. father as 7th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham 1 Jan 1729/30; First Lord of the Admiralty 16 Mar 1742 - Dec 1744, 5 Apr - 2 Jul 1757; KG 13 Mar 1752; Lord President of the Council 12 Jul 1765 - 30 Jul 1766; DL Rutland 1713; a Busby Trustee from 30 May 1722; gave £100 towards the building of College Dormitory; m. 1st, 28 Dec 1729 Lady Frances Feilding, fifth dau. of Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh; m. 2nd, 19 Jan 1737/8 Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart., MP; d. 2 Aug 1769.

FINCH, DANIEL, 6TH EARL OF WINCHILSEA AND 2ND EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, eldest son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (qv); b. 2 Jul 1647; adm.; a boarder of Busby’s for over three years (Busby’s Account Book); adm. Inner Temple 28 Jan 1657/8; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jul 1662; MP Great Bedwyn Feb 1672/3 - Jan 1678/9, Lichfield Aug 1679-81 (check); a Lord of the Admiralty 14 May 1679 - Feb 1680/1; Privy Councillor 4 Feb 1679/80; First Lord of the Admiralty 19 Feb 1680/1 - May 1684; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Nottingham 18 Dec 1682; one of the last to accept the Revolution settlement of 1688-9, although he always kept aloof from the Jacobites; Secretary of State 19 Feb 1688/9 - Nov 1693; carried the Toleration Act, but failed to get his Comprehension Bill passed; again Secretary of State 15 May 1702 - May 1704, when he resigned on the Whigs becoming predominant in the ministry; an active head of the High Church party during the rest of the reign of Queen Anne; carried act forbidding the occasional conformity of dissenters, and opposed preliminaries of peace with France 1711; a leading “Hanoverian Tory” in the years before and immediately after the accession of George I; Lord President of the Council 22 Sep 1714 - Feb 1715/6, when dismissed for advocating leniency to the Jacobite peers then under sentence of death; succ. his second cousin as 6th Earl of Winchilsea 9 Sep 1729; FRS 26 Nov 1668; one of the original trustees of Busby’s will; author, The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr Whiston’s Letter to him concerning the Eternity of the Son of God, 1721; m. 1st, 16 Jun 1674 Lady Essex Rich, second dau. of Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1685 Hon. Anne Hatton, third dau. of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton; d. 1 Jan 1729/30. DNB.

FINCH, HON. EDWARD, fourth son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 26 Apr 1756; adm. 27 May 1766; KS 1768; Capt. of the School 1772; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1773, scholar 22 Apr 1774, matr. Lent 1774; BA 1777; adm. Inner Temple year 1775/6; Cornet, 27th Light Dragoons 27 Dec 1778; Lieut., 87th Foot 7 Oct 1779; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 5 Feb 1783; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3 Oct 1792; 2nd Maj., 19 Nov 1800, 1st Maj., 18 Jun 1801 - Apr 1808; Brevet Col., 3 May 1796; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1801; Lieut. -Gen., 25 Apr 1808; Col. . 54th Foot 3 Aug 1808 – Sep 1809, 22nd Foot from 23 Sep 1809; Gen., 12 Aug 1819; travelling in Italy 1787; served in Flanders 1793-5, Ireland 1798, and on expedition to The Helder 1799; commanded the cavalry under Abercromby in Egypt 1801, and the Brigade of Guards at Bremen 1806 and on expedition to Copenhagen 1807; MP Cambridge 11 May 1789 - Nov 1819; Groom of the Bedchamber to Kings George III, George IV and William IV 27 Apr 1802 - 20 Jun 1837; d. 27 Oct 1843. DNB.

FINCH, FRANCIS, fifth son of Sir Moyle Finch, Bart., MP, Eastwell, Kent, and Elizabeth, Countess of Winchilsea, only dau. of Right Hon. Sir Thomas Heneage PC, Kt, Copthall, Essex, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Elizabeth; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1611, adm. scholar 25 Apr 1612, matr. Easter 1612; BA 1615/6; MA 1629; MP Eye Feb 1623/4 - Mar 1628/9; m. Anne, only child of Michael Barker, Bildeston, Suffolk; d. c. Jan 1657/8 (will dated 14 Dec 1657, proved PCC 18 Jan 1657/8, he of Kensington, Middlesex).