Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea
Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea ( January 3, 1657 - September 30, 1726 ) was an English - British nobleman and politician.
Life
He was the second son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea , from his second marriage to Lady Mary Seymour, daughter of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset . He came from a family of loyal royalists . From 1676 to 1677 he went on a grand tour of France and Italy .
In 1678 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and became Colonel of the Kent Militia Infantry Regiment. From 1683 he also acted as justice of the peace for Kent. In 1682 he was also Captain of the Coldstream Guards and in 1687 promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel . In 1683 he earned a Doctor of Civil Law degree from Oxford University .
In 1683 he received the court office of the Groom of the Bedchamber for Crown Prince James, Duke of York , and kept this office when he was crowned king in 1685 as James II . At the court he met Anne Kingsmill (1661-1720), a Maid of Honor to the Duchess of York to know, and married her in 1684. On the king's proposal, he was in 1685 as MP for the Borough Hythe in Kent into the English House of Commons voted.
When King James II was overthrown by the Glorious Revolution in 1688/89 , he lost all of his public offices and resigned from the army. While trying to flee to France he was arrested in 1690 and finally released on bail. From then on he lived in Eastwell Park , the property of his nephew Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea , the son of his older brother William, who died in 1672, and worked as an antiquarian . He ran several unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons, 1701 for the Borough Rochester and 1705 and 1710 for the Borough Maidstone in Kent.
In 1712, when his nephew died, he inherited his title of nobility as 5th Earl of Winchilsea , 5th Viscount Maidstone , 3rd Baron FitzHerbert and 6th Baronet , of Eastwell. A seat in the House of Lords was associated with the titles . Since he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Queen Anne , he never attended meetings of the House of Lords. Nevertheless, his wife made a career as Lady of the Bedchamber for Queen Anne. In 1724 he was accepted as a fellow in the Society of Antiquaries and was also its vice-president.
He died of an intestinal inflammation in 1726 . Since his marriage remained childless, his nobility titles fell to his younger half-brother, John Finch .
literature
- Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 3, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 4216.
- George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Eds.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 12, Part 2, Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester 2000, pp. 780-781.
- Basil Duke Henning: Finch, Heneage II (1657-1726), of Eastwell, Kent. In: Basil Duke Henning (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1660-1690. Secker & Warburg, London 1983, ISBN 0436192748 ( online ).
Web links
- Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea on thepeerage.com
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Finch |
Earl of Winchilsea 1712-1726 |
John Finch |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finch, Heneage, 5th Earl of Winchilsea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finch, Heneage |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1657 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1726 |