FINCH, Heneage, Lord Guernsey (1715-77).

Returned unopposed as a Tory at a by-election at the end of 1739, Guernsey voted against the Government on the place bill of 1740, and withdrew on the motion for the dismissal of Walpole in February 1741. After the death of his uncle, John Finch, he transferred to Maidstone, voting against the Hanoverian troops in all three recorded divisions and speaking against them on 11 Apr. 1746. He lost his seat in 1747, by which time he had become associated with the Prince of Wales, appearing in Thomas Pitt’s election papers,HMC Fortescue, i. 118. and subsequently being put down for a seat at the Treasury in the 2nd Lord Egmont’s lists of a future Government.

He died 9 May 1777.