FINCH, Heneage (1657-1726) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 3 Jan. 1657, Northants. RO, Finch-Hatton 282. 2nd but 1st surv. s. Heneage Finch, 3rd earl of Winchilsea* and 2nd w. Mary, da. William Seymour, 2nd duke of Somerset; half-bro. of John Finch* [1644], 6th earl of Winchilsea. educ. Wye g.s. 1663-4, Chelsea, Mdx. 1665; HMC Finch, i. 251, 313, 364. travelled abroad (France) c.1675-7. Longleat, Bath mss Thynne pprs. 17, ff. 21-24. m. lic. 14 May 1684, Anne (d. 5 Aug. 1720), da. of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton, Hants, s.p. d. 30 Sept. 1726; will 3 June 1725, pr. 20 Oct. 1726. TNA, PROB 11/611, ff. 236-9.

Offices Held

Groom of the bedchamber to James, duke of York (later James II), 1683–8. CSP Dom. 1685, p. 144.

Col. militia ft. Kent, 1678 – 89; dep. lt. Kent 1678–89; CSP Dom. 1678, pp. 337, 354. freeman, Canterbury 1680. Roll of Freemen of Canterbury, comp. J.M. Cowper, 317.

Capt. Coldstream Gds. 1682 – 87, lt.-col. 1687 – 89.

FSA, c. 1722 – d., v.-pres. 1724 – d.; Freemason? c.1725–d. J. Evans, Hist. Soc. Antiquaries, 55n, 68.

Parlimentarian

FINCH, Heneage II (1657-1726), of Eastwell, Kent.

Likenesses

line engraving by George Vertue, 1728, NPG 8739.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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