Anne Finch, Countess of Nottingham
Anne Finch, Countess of Nottingham (October 1668 – 26 September 1743), formerly Anne Hatton, was the second wife of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and the mother of Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham.
Anne was the daughter of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, and his wife, the former Lady Cecilia Tufton.[1]
The earl's first wife, the former Lady Essex Rich,[2] died in childbirth in 1684, leaving one surviving daughter. Anne Hatton married the earl, who was more than twenty years her senior, on 29 December 1685.[3] The countess was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary II of England in 1691, and served in that position until 1794.[4]
From Anne's twenty-two pregnancies, the couple had at least thirteen surviving children:[5]
- Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea (1689-1769), who was married twice, first to Lady Frances Feilding, and second to Mary Palmer, but had no surviving children.
- William Finch (1690-1766), who married Charlotte Fermor, and was the father of George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea.
- John Finch (1692–1763), who had one daughter.
- Hon. Henry Finch (1694 – 26 April 1761),[6] whose illegitimate daughter, Charlotte (d. 5 April 1810), married Thomas Raikes, Governor of the Bank of England
- Edward Finch (MP) (1697-1771), who married Elizabeth Palmer. He later took the surname Finch-Hatton, and was the grandfather of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea.
- Essex Finch (1687-1721), who married to Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet of Mostyn, and had children
- Lady Charlotte Finch (1693-1773), who married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and had children
- Lady (Cecilia) Isabella Finch (1700–1771), who never married but became first Lady of the Bedchamber to Princess Amelia, and was the owner of 44 Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London.[7]
- Mary Finch (1701-1761) (not to be confused with her elder half-sister of the same name from her father's first marriage), who married Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and had children
- Lady Henrietta Finch (1702-1742), who married William Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland, and had no children
- Elizabeth Finch (1704-1784), who married William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, and had no children
References
- ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 283.
- ↑ ODNB, "Daniel Finch"
- ↑ "Winchilsea, Earl of (E, 1628)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- ↑ Edward T. Corp (1998). Lord Burlington: the man and his politics : questions of loyalty. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-8367-5.
- ↑ Horwitz, Henry (2004-09-23). Finch, Daniel, second earl of Nottingham and seventh earl of Winchilsea (1647–1730), politician. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9427.
- ↑ "FINCH, Hon. Henry (?1694-1761). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ 44 Berkeley Square, A Commentary by Lord Kinross Illustrated by Adrian Daintrey, London, 1962