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NameHeneage Finch Earl of Winchilsea 
[54, His own article], [60, Weymouth article, Vol XII/2, pp. 587], [60, Winchilsea art, Vol XII/2, p. 777-9], [123, Vol II, p. 237]
[54, His own article], [60, Weymouth article, Vol XII/2, pp. 587], [60, Winchilsea art, Vol XII/2, p. 777-9], [123, Vol II, p. 237]Birthca 1628
Death28 Aug 1689
Burial4 Sep 1689, Eastwell Park, Kent
General1st s. 3rd earl. Royalist in Civil War. Jnt ld Lt of Kent.
EducationEmmanuel College, Cambridge
FatherSir Thomas Finch Earl of Winchelsea (1578-1639)
MotherCicely Wentworth (-1642)
Spouses
1Mary Seymour [60, Weymouth article, Vol XII/2, pp. 587], [60, Winchilsea art, Vol XII/2, p. 778], [54, Father, Wm. Seymour's article]
[60, Weymouth article, Vol XII/2, pp. 587], [60, Winchilsea art, Vol XII/2, p. 778], [54, Father, Wm. Seymour's article]FatherWilliam Seymour Duke of Somerset (1587-1660)
MotherFrances Devereux (ca1599-1674)
Marriageca 1649 [60, Winchilsea art, Vol XII/2, p. 778]
Notes for Heneage Finch Earl of Winchilsea
m. (1) Diana Willoughby, (2) Mary Seymour, (3) Catherine Norcliff, (4) Elizabeth Ayres.
DNB Main notes for Heneage Finch Earl of Winchilsea
Finch, Heneage, second Earl of Winchilsea d. 1689
Name: Finch, Heneage
Title: second Earl of Winchilsea
Dates: d. 1689
Active Date: 1669
Gender: Male
Place of
Education: Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Spouse: Diana, daughter of Francis, fifth lord Willoughby of Parham, Mary, daughter of William Seymour, marquis of Hertford, Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliff, Elizabeth, daughter of John Ayres, esq.
Sources: Collins's Peerage, ed. 1779, iii. 280; Walpole's Royal and Noble...
Contributor: E. T. B. [Emily Tennyson Bradley]
Article
Finch, Heneage, second Earl of Winchilsea d. 1689, was the son of Thomas, the first earl, whose mother Elizabeth had been created Countess of Winchilsea in her widowhood by Charles I (1628). Heneage, educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, succeeded to the title of Viscount Maidstone in 1633, and of Earl of Winchilsea in 1639. He distinguished himself on the royalist side during the great rebellion, providing auxiliary troops (horse and foot) at his own expense, and supplying `with great hazard' Charles II's `necessities in foreign parts.' He was a friend of Monck and was made governor of Dover Castle in 1660. Upon the Restoration he was created a baron, by the title of Lord Fitzherbert of Eastwell (from which family the Finches claimed descent), 26 June 1660, and on 10 July was appointed lord-lieutenant of Kent. Early in 1661 he went on an important embassy to Sultan Mahomet Chan IV, and published an account of it the same year. He remained as English ambassador at Constantinople eight years, and on his return journey wrote from Naples to the king a description, afterwards printed, of the eruption of Mount Etna. At home he was reinstated lord-lieutenant of Kent and governor of Dover Castle, and was lord-lieutenant of Somerset from 1675 to 1683. He was, with a long list of other lieutenants, dismissed from Kent in 1687. When James II was stopped at Feversham by the Kentish fishermen, he sent for Winchilsea, who was at Canterbury. The earl arrived before night (12 Dec.), and interposed on behalf of the king besides moving him to a more suitable lodging in a private house (Add. MS. 32095, f. 298; Ralph, History, i. 1068). When James fled for the second time, Winchilsea was one of those who voted for offering the vacant throne to William and Mary, and in March 1689 was again made lord-lieutenant of Kent. He died in August the same year. He married four times: (1) Diana, daughter of Francis, fifth lord Willoughby of Parham; (2) Mary, daughter of William Seymour, marquis of Hertford; (3) Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliff; (4) Elizabeth, daughter of John Ayres, esq. Out of twenty-seven children sixteen lived to `some maturity.'
His published works were: 1. `Narrative of the Success of his Embassy to Turkey. The Voyage of the Right Honourable Heneage Finch from Smyrna to Constantinople. His Arrival there, and the manner of his Entertainment and Audience with the Grand Vizier and Grand Seignieur,' London, 1661. 2. `A true and exact Relation of the late prodigious Earthquake and Eruption of Mount Etna, or Mount Gibello, as it came in a Letter written to his Majesty from Naples. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Winchelsea, his Majesty's late Ambassador at Constantinople, who on his return from thence, visiting Catania, in the Island of Sicily, was an eye-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same, as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. With a View of the Mountain and Conflagration,' London, 1669, fol.
Sources:
Collins's Peerage, ed. 1779, iii. 280; Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, ed. Park, iii. 316; Rycaut's Hist. of the Turks, ii. 97, &c.; Luttrell's Relation of State Affairs, i. 422, 575; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Doyle's Baronage.
Contributor: E. T. B.
published 1889
Name: Finch, Heneage
Title: second Earl of Winchilsea
Dates: d. 1689
Active Date: 1669
Gender: Male
Place of
Education: Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Spouse: Diana, daughter of Francis, fifth lord Willoughby of Parham, Mary, daughter of William Seymour, marquis of Hertford, Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliff, Elizabeth, daughter of John Ayres, esq.
Sources: Collins's Peerage, ed. 1779, iii. 280; Walpole's Royal and Noble...
Contributor: E. T. B. [Emily Tennyson Bradley]
Article
Finch, Heneage, second Earl of Winchilsea d. 1689, was the son of Thomas, the first earl, whose mother Elizabeth had been created Countess of Winchilsea in her widowhood by Charles I (1628). Heneage, educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, succeeded to the title of Viscount Maidstone in 1633, and of Earl of Winchilsea in 1639. He distinguished himself on the royalist side during the great rebellion, providing auxiliary troops (horse and foot) at his own expense, and supplying `with great hazard' Charles II's `necessities in foreign parts.' He was a friend of Monck and was made governor of Dover Castle in 1660. Upon the Restoration he was created a baron, by the title of Lord Fitzherbert of Eastwell (from which family the Finches claimed descent), 26 June 1660, and on 10 July was appointed lord-lieutenant of Kent. Early in 1661 he went on an important embassy to Sultan Mahomet Chan IV, and published an account of it the same year. He remained as English ambassador at Constantinople eight years, and on his return journey wrote from Naples to the king a description, afterwards printed, of the eruption of Mount Etna. At home he was reinstated lord-lieutenant of Kent and governor of Dover Castle, and was lord-lieutenant of Somerset from 1675 to 1683. He was, with a long list of other lieutenants, dismissed from Kent in 1687. When James II was stopped at Feversham by the Kentish fishermen, he sent for Winchilsea, who was at Canterbury. The earl arrived before night (12 Dec.), and interposed on behalf of the king besides moving him to a more suitable lodging in a private house (Add. MS. 32095, f. 298; Ralph, History, i. 1068). When James fled for the second time, Winchilsea was one of those who voted for offering the vacant throne to William and Mary, and in March 1689 was again made lord-lieutenant of Kent. He died in August the same year. He married four times: (1) Diana, daughter of Francis, fifth lord Willoughby of Parham; (2) Mary, daughter of William Seymour, marquis of Hertford; (3) Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliff; (4) Elizabeth, daughter of John Ayres, esq. Out of twenty-seven children sixteen lived to `some maturity.'
His published works were: 1. `Narrative of the Success of his Embassy to Turkey. The Voyage of the Right Honourable Heneage Finch from Smyrna to Constantinople. His Arrival there, and the manner of his Entertainment and Audience with the Grand Vizier and Grand Seignieur,' London, 1661. 2. `A true and exact Relation of the late prodigious Earthquake and Eruption of Mount Etna, or Mount Gibello, as it came in a Letter written to his Majesty from Naples. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Winchelsea, his Majesty's late Ambassador at Constantinople, who on his return from thence, visiting Catania, in the Island of Sicily, was an eye-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same, as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. With a View of the Mountain and Conflagration,' London, 1669, fol.
Sources:
Collins's Peerage, ed. 1779, iii. 280; Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, ed. Park, iii. 316; Rycaut's Hist. of the Turks, ii. 97, &c.; Luttrell's Relation of State Affairs, i. 422, 575; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Doyle's Baronage.
Contributor: E. T. B.
published 1889