Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Heneage Finch
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Sir Heneage Finch,
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Was the son of Sir Moyle Finch of Eastwell, where he was probably born. He studied law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar in 1606. In the following year he entered Parliament, where he took an active part in the Debates and Proceedings of the House, and was elected Speaker in the year 1625. Two years before that he was knighted and advanced to the Degree of Sergeant-at-Law. He died Dec. 5, 1631. He left a work in MS. on the Jurisdiction of Bishops.
[See Manning's "Lives of the Speakers."]