WINCHILSBA. 179 Maiimtoiib. and Blinbeth his wife, both aboTeoAiiied ; B. 26 Sep. 1672, di/Ud VisoooNT Maidstonb till ht tucto ike peerage^ as above, Sep. 1689, taking his seat, 7 Not. 1698 ; Lieut. Gov. of Ooyer Castle. Dep. Warden of the Cinque Ports and Vioe Admiral of Kent, ] 702*05; EnToy to Hanover, 1702; L. Lieut, of Kent, 170405 ; P.C, 1711 ; a Lord of Tmde, 1711, and President of that Board, 1712. He m. 26 or 28 Sep. 1692, at Mildenhall, Wilts, Sarah, da. of Henry Noubbr, of AVood- lands in that county. He d. s.p.8. 6/16 Aug. 1712 in London.(*) Admon. 28 Oct 1712 to a creditor. His widow m. William Kollinsoii [Qy. Rawurboh], ** Esq.," to whom admon. of her goods was granted, 14 Nov. 1785. [Charles Finch, iiyled Viscount MAmsroNiiy only s. and h. ap. ; b* Aag. 1708 ; d. an infant, v.p. 1705.] y. 1712. 6. Hbneagb (FiNcn), Earl OF WiNCHiLSSA, &o., uncle and h. male, being next br. of the whole blood to the lata Earl's father ; h. about 1656; Qroom of the bedchamber, 1683, to the Duke of York as also in 1685 to the same person, when King, as James II., he being er. D.C.L., of Oxford, 22 May 1683, when in attendance on him there ; Col. in the armj, or militia, 1685 ; M.P. for Hythe, 1685-86 ; tue. to the peerage, 14 Aug. 1712, but, declining the oatlis, never took his seat(^) F.S. A., 10 Jan. 1724. He m. (Lie. London, 14 May 1684), Anne (then aged 18), da. of Sir William Kinosmill, of Sidmonton, Hants, by Anne, da. of Sir Anthony Haslrwood, of Mnidwell, oo. Northampton. She, who had been maid of honour to Mary Beatrice when Duchess of York, and a Lady of the Dedchamber to Queen Anne,(') was a Poetess of some little note. She d, at her house in Cleve- land Row, 5 and was hur, 9 Aug. 1720, at Eastwell. Admon, 19 Aug. 1720. He d, 8.p. 80 Sep. 1726, aged 69, and was hur, at Eastwell. Will pr. 1726. VI. 1726. 6, John (Finch), Earl of Winchilsba [1628], Viscount MAiDeTONi [1628] and Barov Fitbiurbbrt of Bastwbll [1660], also a Baronet [1611], br. of the half blood and h., being s. of Heneage, the 8a holder of this Earldom, by his 4th wife. He was h. 24 Feb. 1682/8 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 16 Oct. 1708 ; ene. to the peerage, 80 Sep. 1726. He d. unm. at his house in Queen S<itiam, Wcsfm., 9 and was hur» 22 Sep. 1729, in Woatm. Abbey, aged 46,(<^) when the Barony of Piizherbert of SaetweU became extinelf but the rest of his honours devolved as below. Will dat 8 Feb. 1728/9, pr. 23 Sep. 1729 by his mother, and universal legatee. VIL 1729, 7. Danibl (Finch), Earl op Winchilsba ri628], Earl of NomNOBAM [1681], Visoourt Maidbtoni [1628], and Baron Fufcn or Davbntrt [1674], also a Baronet [1611 and 1660], 2d cousin and h. male, being a. and h. of Heneaffe (Finoh), Ist Earl or NorrmaiiAM and Baron Finch or Davkntrt, also a Baronet [1660], sometime [1676-82], L. Chancellor of England, by Elisabeth, da. of William Harvbt, which Heneage (who d. 18 Deo. 1682, aged 61), (•) Macky {" Cfharacten") says of him when "not 80 years old," that "he hath neither genius nor gusto for business, loves hunting and a bottle, was an opposer (to his power) of the measures of King William's reign, and is eealons for the monarchy and church to the highest degree. He loves jests and puns and that sort of low wit [to which Swift adds, * I never observed it *], is of short stature, well shaped, with a handsome countenance." Swift, also, adds, " Being very poor he complied too much with the party he hnteil," and, again (when writing to Stella, 7 Aug. 1712), he says, his death was "to my great grief. He was a worthy honest gentleman and a particular friend of min&" (^) "A man of great worth and honour ; he was a nonjuror" [Harley's MfvMh randA, in -A': and Q., 2d 8., vol. i, p. 326]. His portrait " after O. Vortue," is engraved in ** Doyle,** («) She ia aaid to have influenced tlie Queen in her " Jacobite " tendencies. She is the " Ardelia" of Pope and the " Flavia" of Howe. Her best known poem is one on " The Spleen." (d) Isabel, Lady Wentworth [WentwortK papert, p. 205], writes of him in 1712, as "a prety, genteel, welbred, modist young man, and mngs fynly."
