FINCH, Heneage (1621-82) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 23 Dec. 1621, 1st s. of Sir Heneage Finch^‡, Speaker of the Commons, and 1st w. Frances, da. of Sir Edmund Bell^‡ of Beaupré Hall, Norf. educ. Westminster Sch.; Christ Church, Oxf. 1636, DCL 1665; I. Temple, admitted 26 Nov. 1638, called 30 Jan. 1645. m. 30 July 1646, Elizabeth Lord Nottingham’s Chancery Cases ed. D.E.C. Yale, i. (Selden Soc. lxxiii), p. xiii. (d.1676), Verney ms mic. M636/29, William Fall to Sir Ralph Verney, 16 Mar. 1676. da. of Daniel Harvey, merchant of London, sis. of Daniel Harvey^‡, 10s. (3 d.v.p.), Verney ms mic. M636/27, Sir Ralph Verney to Edmund Verney, 28 May 1674. 4da. cr. Bt. 7 June 1660. d. 18 Dec. 1682; Add. 18730, f. 102. will 31 Mar. 1682, pr. 5 Feb. 1683. TNA, PROB 11/374.

Offices Held

Bencher, I. Temple June 1660, treas. 1661 – 73, reader 1661.

Solicitor-gen. June 1660–70; attorney-gen. 1670 – 73; ld. keeper Nov.1673-Dec. 1675; ld. of admiralty 31 Oct. 1674 – 14 May 1679; PC 1673 – d.; PC [S] 1674, CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 251. 1676; ld. chancellor Dec. 1675 – d.; cttee of trade and planatations 1679; Bodl. Carte 81, f. 600. ld. high steward (trials of Bar. Cornwallis, earl of Pembroke and Visct. Stafford).

Commr. for militia, Mdx. Mar. 1660, assessment, oyer and terminer, Mdx. July 1660, Sept. 1660–74, Kent Aug. 1660–1, 1665 – 74, Westminster 1665 – 74, Northants. 1673 – 74, sewers, N. Kent Sept. 1660, loyal and indigent officers, Mdx., London and Westminster 1662; freeman, Canterbury Oct. 1660; chamberlain palatinate of Chester 1673 – 76; gov. of the Charterhouse 1674. Davies, Charterhouse in London (1921), app. D, p. 354.

Asst. R. Fishing Co. 1664.

Parlimentarian

FINCH, Heneage (1621-82), of Ravenstone, Bucks. and Kensington, Mdx.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by Sir P. Lely, English Heritage, Kenwood House; oil on canvas aft. Sir G. Kneller, c.1680, NPG 1430; monumental effigy in All Saints, Ravenstone, Bucks. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, ii. 251-3.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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