FINCH

Married: Joan PASSENDEN (dau. of Robert Passenden and Isabella Holden) ABT 1380, Kent, England

Married 1: Frances BELL (dau. of Sir Edmund Bell of Beaupre Hall and Anne Osborne) ABT 1620, Beaupre-Hall, Norfolk, England

Married: Clifford CLIFTON (Sir) (son of Sir Gervase Clifton, Bt., and Frances Clifford)

Married: William WALLER of Osterley Park (Sir) (b. ABT 1598 - d. 1668) (son of Sir Thomas Waller andMargaret Leonard) ABT 1635

Married: Erasmus PHILLIPS (3° Bt. of Picton Castle) (d. 18 Jan 1697) (son of Sir Richard Philips, 2nd Bart of Picton Castle and Elizabeth Dryden)

2.William FINCH (B. Maidstone) (b. 1648 - dvp 28 May 1672) (m. Elizabeth Wyndham)

5.Heneage FINCH (4° E. Winchelsea) (b. 3 Jan 1656 - dsp 30 Sep 1726)(m. Anne Kingsmill)

Married 4: Elizabeth AYRES (d. 10 Apr 1745) (dau. of John Ayres of London) 29 Oct 1681

Henry FINCH (Sir)

Born: ABT 1553, Eastwell, Kent, England

Died: 11 Oct 1625

Father: Thomas FINCH (Sir)

Mother: Catherine MOYLE

Married: Ursula THWAITES ABT 1590

Children:

1. John FINCH (1° B. Finch of Fordwich)

2. Catherine FINCH

Catherine FINCH

Born: ABT 1592

Father: Henry FINCH (Sir)

Mother: Ursula THWAITES

Married: Henry WYATT 8 Dec 1618, St. Andrews

Children:

1. Eleanor WYATT

John FINCH (1° B. Finch of Fordwich)

Born: 17 Sep 1584

Died: 27 Nov 1660

Buried: St Martins Church, near Canterbury

Notes: Lord Chief Justice. generally known as Sir John Finch, English judge, a member of the old family of Finch, was called to the bar in 1611. He was returned to parliament for Canterbury in 1614, and became recorder of the same place in 1617. Having attracted the notice of Charles I, who visited Canterbury in 1625, and was received with an address by Finch in his capacity as recorder, he was the following year appointed kings counsel and attorney-general to the Queen and was knighted. In 1628 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post which he retained till its dissolution in 1629. He was the speaker who was held down in his chair by Holles and others on the occasion of Sir John Eliots resolution on tonnage and poundage. In 1634 he was appointed Chief Justice of the court of common pleas, and distinguished himself by the active zeal with which he upheld the kings prerogative. Notable also was the brutality which characterized his conduct as chief justice, particularly in the cases of William Prynne and John Langton. He presided over the trial of John Hampden, who resisted the payment of ship-money, and be was chiefly responsible for the decision of the judges that ship-money was constitutional. As a reward for his services he was, in 1640, appointed lord keeper, and was also created Baron Finch of Fordwich. He had, however, become so unpopular that one of the first acts of the Long Parliament, which met in the same year was his impeachment. He took refuge in Holland, but had to suffer the sequestration of his estates. When he was allowed to return to England is uncertain, but in 1660 he was one of the commissioners for the trial of the regicides, though he does not appear to have taken much part in the proceedings. His peerage becoming extinct at his death.

Father: Henry FINCH (Sir)

Mother: Ursula THWAITES

Married 1: Mabella FOTHERBY (dau. of Charles Fotherby and Cecilia Waller) ABT 1609

Children:

1. Dau. FINCH (m. Sir George Radcliffe in Ireland)

Married 2: Eleanor WYATT6 Feb 1618, Boxley, Kent, England