Savile Finch (baptised 22 September 1736[1] – 20 September 1788) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1757 to 1780.

Finch was the only son of the Honourable John Finch, younger son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford. His mother was Mary, daughter and heiress of John Savile, of Methley-hall, Yorkshire.[2] He was baptised in Aylesford.[3]

Finch sat as a Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1757 to 1761 and for Malton from 1761 to 1780.[4]

Finch married Judith Fullerton, daughter of John Fullerton. They had no children and Finch bequeathed the estates to his wife. After his death, she lived at Thrybergh for twenty years and when she died in 1803 left the estate to the Fullerton family.[5]

References

  1. ^ England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  2. ^ Parishes: Newington, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6 (1798), pp. 40-67. Date accessed: 19 October 2010
  3. ^ Fielding, Charles Henry (1893). Memories of Malling and Its Valley: With a Fauna and Flora of Kent. H.C.H. Oliver. p. 223. Retrieved 12 January 2019. Savile.
  4. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Macclesfield to Marylebone West[usurped]
  5. ^ John Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3
Parliament of Great Britain Preceded byLord GuernseyGabriel Hanger Member of Parliament for Maidstone 1757–1761 With: Gabriel Hanger Succeeded byRose FullerWilliam Northey Preceded byHenry FinchJohn Mostyn Member of Parliament for Malton 1761–1780 With: John Mostyn 1761–1768The Viscount Downe 1768–1774Edmund Burke 1774–1775William Weddell 1775–1780 Succeeded byEdmund BurkeWilliam Weddell


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