FINCH, HENEAGE, 1ST EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch, Kt, MP, Kensington, Middlesex, Recorder of London, Speaker House of Commons, and his first wife Frances, dau. of Sir Edmund Bell, Beaupré Hall, Norfolk; nephew of Francis Finch (qv); b. 23 Dec 1621; at school under Osbaldeston (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, iv, 66); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Feb 1635/6, having Richard Busby (qv) as his tutor (HMC Finch MSS, I, 229-30); DCL 7 Nov 1665; adm. Inner Temple 25 Nov 1638, called to bar 30 Jan 1645/6, Bencher 29 Jun 1660, Treasurer 1661-73; MP Canterbury Apr-Oct 1660, Oxford University Apr 1661-Dec 1673; Solicitor-Gen. 6 Jun 1660 - May 1670; created baronet 7 Jun 1660; Attorney-Gen., 10 May 1670 - Nov 1673; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 9 Nov 1673; Privy Councillor 12 Nov 1673; created Baron Finch 10 Jan 1673/4; Lord Chancellor from 19 Dec 1674; Lord Lieut. Somerset from 1674; presided as Lord High Steward at the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for manslaughter 1677, and at that of Lord Stafford for treason 1680; created Earl of Nottingham 12 May 1681; an able and zealous supporter of the Church of England and the Crown; never the subject of parliamentary attack or ever lost the confidence of Charles II; the Amri of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel; m. 30 Jul 1646 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Daniel Harvey, Folkestone, Kent, a Turkey merchant in the City of London; d. 18 Dec 1682. DNB.
FINCH, HON. HENRY ALLINGTON, sixth son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 11 Mar 1760; adm. 6 Jul 1769; left Whitsun 1774; d. 19 Nov 1780.
FINCH, HON. JOHN, son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 22 May 1755; adm. 3 Jun 1765; left Easter 1771; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 30 Mar 1772; Lieut. and Capt., 22 Apr 1776; served in American War; mortally wounded in skirmish at Westfield, near New York, 26 Jun 1777; d. at Amboy, Staten Island, New York 29 Jun 1777.
FINCH, HON. JOHN, son of Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 13 Mar 1793; adm.; left 1806; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons 5 Oct 1809; Lieut., 20 Dec 1810; Capt., 37th Foot 17 Feb 1814; half-pay 25 May 1817; Maj., Royal West India Rangers 5 Mar 1818; Lieut. -Col. in Army 25 Oct 1823; Col. in Army 28 Jun 1838; Maj. -Gen., 11 Nov 1851; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Feb 1855; Col., 24th Foot from 19 Jun 1856; served in Peninsular War; wounded at Vittoria 1813; CB 26 Dec 1818; Military Secretary to Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (qv) while Commander-in-Chief, India; present at siege and capture of Bhurtpore 1826; m. 28 Jul 1835 Katherine, dau. of Alexander Ellice; d. 25 Nov 1861.
FINCH, HON. JOHN, second son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford (qv); b.; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1728); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Apr 1709, aged 19; adm. Inner Temple 1710, called to bar 5 Feb 1718/9; MP Maidstone from 1722; m. 30 Apr 1726 Elizabeth, dau. of John Savile, Methley, Yorks.; d. 1 Jan 1740.
FINCH. HON. WILLIAM CLEMENT, third son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 27 May 1753; in school lists 1764, 1765; left Whitsun 1765; entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 7 Jul 1772; Master and Commander 10 Apr 1776; Capt., 18 Mar 1777; Rear-Adm., 4 Jul 1794; of Albury, Surrey; MP Surrey from 1790; m. 3 Aug 1789 Mary, dau. of Henry Brouncker (qv); d. 30 Sep 1794.
FINCH, HON. WILLIAM, third son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (qv); b. 27 Apr 1651; a boarder with Busby for over five years (Busby’s Account Book); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1666; adm. Inner Temple 23 Nov 1662, called to bar 23 Nov 1673, Bencher 24 Nov 1696, Reader 9 Feb 1696/7; MP Great Bedwyn 1679-81; lic. to m. 17 May 1681 Anne, dau. of Sir William Hoskins, Kt, Oxted, Surrey; d. 26 Feb 1725/6.
FINCH, WILLIAM, VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE, eldest son of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea, and his second wife Lady Mary Seymour, second dau. of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset KG PC; b.; adm.; a boarder with Busby; left 1660, when Busby recorded that “Lord Maddeston left 2 beds and furniture of chamber, but paid nothing for himself or man, either entrance, board, school, or attendance in time of sicknes at nursery” (Busby’s Account Book, as quoted Barker, Memoir of Richard Busby, 115); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Nov 1664, matr. 1664; MA 1666; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Windham, Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk; killed in sea battle against the Dutch in Southwold Bay 28 May 1672.
FINCHAM, GEORGE TUPMAN, eldest son of George Fincham MRCS MSA, Spring Gardens, Westminster, and Mary Anne, dau. of Samuel Tupman, Nottingham; b. 28 Jan 1818; adm. 25 Feb 1828; left Midsummer 1831; King’s Coll. Sch. 1831-3; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. 17 Mar 1836; MB 1843; MD 1847; a medical student at St. George’s Hospital, Paris and Dublin; LRCP 1844; FRCP 1855, Censor 1872-4, 1877-8, 1883-4, Examiner 1881-3, Vice-Pres. 1885; Physician, Westminster Hospital 1855, Senior Physician 1877-83, Consulting Physician from 1883; medical attendant to the School; Roman Catholic convert 1855; m. 31 Jul 1847 Anna Elizabeth, dau. of James Heygate, Porters Grange, Southend, Essex; d. 26 May 1890.
FINCH-HATTON, HON. DANIEL HENEAGE, younger son of George Finch-Hatton (qv); b. 1795; adm.; left 1812; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1814, scholar 26 Oct 1815, matr. Mich. 1814; BA 1818; MA 1821; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 1818, priest (Salisbury) 1819; Curate, Westwell, Kent 1818; Rector of Great Weldon, Northants., 19 Jun 1819-63; Chaplain in Ordinary to George IV, William IV and Victoria, from 1823; patent of precedence 30 Nov 1840; m. 15 Dec 1825 Lady Louisa Greville, second dau. of Hon. Robert Fulke Greville MP, and Louisa, Countess of Mansfield; d. 3 Jan 1866.