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 WINOHILSEA. 181 Norihnmpton, by his firai wife, Cectlifti da. of John (TunoN), Earl of THANirf^) He d, 1 and was bur. 13 Jim. 1729/30, at Ravenstone, Bucks, aged about 83. Will pr. 1730. His widow, by whom he hod (30 I) diildreo,(^) d, 26 Sep. and was hw. 6 Oct 1743, at Ravenstoue afsd. Will pr. 1743. VIII. 1730. 8. Danibl (Finch), Earl of Winchilsba, Earl of NoTTiHOHAir, &c., 2d but Ist sur?. s. and h.,(<^) by second wife ; 5. 1689 ; ttykd Lord Fktch till 1780 ; ed. at Westm. ; mat. at Oiford (Ch. Ch.), 28 Jane 1 704, ngod 15 ; M.P. for Rutlniid, 1710-29 ; a Lonl of tlie Rodchamber to the Prince of Wales, 1714-16 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1715-16 ; P.O. to Qeo. IL, 1725, and to Geo. III., 1760 ; Comptroller of the Household, 1725-30 ; er. LL.D. of Cambridj^e, 25 April 1728 ; $ue, to the peerage, as above. 1 Jan. 1729/30 ; First Lord of the Admu«lty, 1742-44, and again, April to July 1757(^) ; one of the Lord Justices (Regents) of the Realm, 27 April to 15 Not. 1743 ; el. K.Q., 13 March and inst. 4 June 1752 ; L. President of the Council, 1765-66. He m. firstly, in 1720, Frances, 5th da. of Basil (Fbildino), 4th Earl of Denbigh, by Hester, do. of Sir Basil Firbbracb, Bart She d, at Wentworth House, oo. York, Sep. and was bur, 3 Oct. 1734, at RaTenstone. He m. secondly, 19 Jan. 1737/8, Mary, da. and coheir of Sir Thomas Palmbb, 4th Bart, of Wingham, co. Kent, by (— ). She d, 8 and was bur. 18 Aug. 1757, at Ravenstone. He d. 8.p.m. at hii house on Parsons Qreen, Fulham, 2 and was bur» 12 Aug. 1769, at liavenstone, in his 8l8t year.(«) Will dat. 25 Aug. 1761, pr. 10 Aug. 1769. IX. 1769. P. Georgb (Fl^'cu), Earl of Wikchilsba, Eabl of NoTTinaRAM, ftc, nephew and h. male, being only s. and h. of the Right Hon. William Finch, sometime [1742] Vice Chamberlain of the Household, hj his second wife, Charlotte, da. of Thomas (Firmor), 1st Earl op Pomfret, which William (who d. 25 Dec. 1766) was next br. to the late Earl. He was b, 4 No7. and bap. 4 Dec. 1752, at St. James*, Westm., the King {George J I.) being one of his sponsors ; ed. at Eton, and nt Ch. Ch., Oxford ; matric. 18 Dec. 1767 ; iue. to the peerage, 2 Aug. 1769 ; er. M.A. of Oxford, 4 July 1771 ; served as a volunteer in America, 1776, being Mnjor, 87th Foot, 1779, and a Lieut. Col. 1780 ; was a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1777—1812 ; F.S.A., 20 Jan. 1701 ; Member of the Board of Agriculture, 1793 ; Col. of the Rutland Yeomanry, 1794 ; P.O., 1801 ; Qroom of the Stole, 1804-12 ; el. and inv. KQ., 17 Jan. and iust. 23 April 1805 ; F.R.S., 7 May 1807. Ha il s.p., legit, and unm., 2 Aug. 1826, in South street, aged 73.(0 Will pr. Aug. 1826. X. 1826. 10. Gborgb William (Finch-Hatton), Earl of Win- cniLSBA, Earl of KoTTiNaiiAM, kc., couBin and h. male, beins 1st s. and h. of Qeorge Finch- Hattov, of Kirby Hall, oo. Northampton, and Eastwell park, CO. Kent, by Elizabeth Mary, da. of David (Hurray), Earl of Mansfibld, which C^) '*Her portion was but £1,000," writes Bridget Noel, 6 Jan. 1685/6. She is said to have been 20 years younger than her husband. The Bishop of Oxford, wriUnff to Viscount Hatton, 20 Deo. 1685, says : " Your daughter if she can comport with tibe temper of a grave husband, and deny herself those gaieties, which may be decent for the wife of one who is of her nge, may promise to herself as much happiness in this dispoaal as is to bo had in this world." (*>) " Five sons and eight daughters, besides ten other children who died young, and seven who were still-bom." {CcUini] This is in addition to a daughter by his first wife, so that there were thirty-one children in all. (c) Heneace Finch, the eldest sod, d voung. (<*) " The black funereal Earl uf Winchilsea succeeds me,*' writes Earl Temple, in 1757, to the Rt. Hon. Qeo. Qrenville. [Qrenv'dU Papert], See p. 180, note "o," eirea finem, (°) He had antiquarian tastes. See Peck*s Detiderala Curiota for an account of his discovery of a supposed son of Richard IIL, said to have secluded himself at Eastwell. (0 T. Raikes {Journal, vol. iii, p. 51) calls him *' a nobleman of the old school and a high bred gentleman in his manners to all." According to the OenL Mag, of 1826, he, " with the Duke of Dorset and Sir Horace Mann, established that code of laws by which the game of cricket has ever since been regulated."