Finch, Heneage, ca. 1649-1719

FINCH, HENEAGE, 1ST EARL OF AYLESFORD, second son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (qv); b.; adm.; a boarder with Busby for over four years (Busby’s Account Book); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1664, aged 15; DCL 22 May 1683; adm. Inner Temple 23 Nov 1662, called to bar 23 Nov 1673, Bencher 28 Oct 1677; KC 10 Jul 1677; Solicitor-Gen. 13 Jan 1678/9 - 21 Apr 1686; MP Oxford University Feb 1678/9 - Jul 1679, Guildford 1685-7, Oxford University Jan 1688/9 -98, Jan 1700/1- 15 Mar 1702/3; leading counsel for the Seven Bishops, Trinity term 1688; popularly known at the Bar as “silver-tongued Finch”; created Baron Guernsey 15 Mar 1702/3; Privy Councillor 20 Mar 1702/3 - May 1708, and from 13 Dec 1711; created Earl of Aylesford 19 Oct 1714; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster 14 Oct 1714 - 29 Feb 1715/6; one of original trustees of Busby’s will; author, reports of various celebrated trials and of other legal tracts; m. 16 May 1678 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Banks, Bart., Aylesford, Kent; d. 22 Jul 1719. DNB.

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