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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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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.