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Sir Heneage Finch of Eastwell, Kent, was the 2nd Earl of Winchelsea and born in 1628, he died in 1689. He married at least twice and was the father of at least 16 children.
His first wife was Ann, the dughter of Sir Thomas Kingsmill, 1st Earl, and Lord Lieutenant of Kent. His second wife was Mary Seymour the daughter of William Seymour, second Earl of Hertford, Duke of Somerset. She died in her bed, apparently from an excess of childbearing.
William Finch was his first son and heir by Ann and born before 1654, he was titled the Lord Maidstone, and later died in batttle at sea. The scond child of this family was a daughter Francis (wed Thomas Thynne, First Viscount Weymouth), and in 1657 the third was a son named Heneage, born January 11, 1657.
Before October 1660 when the Heneage family went to Turkey, a third son Thomas was born (1658).
"His contemporaries called him "amorous," and in Turkey he was reputed to have "had many women" and "built little houses for them." "
On his return from Turkey in June 1668, king Charles II remarked to Finch, "My Lord, you have not only built a town, but peopled it too".
Lord Finch was apointed by his friend earl of Arbermale (General Monk) a Governor of Dover Castle, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in the July of 1660, also Lord Lieutenant of Kent and afterwards ambassador the Ottoman Empire and served in this capacity from between 1660-69. Samuel Pepys first refered to him as the Lord Winchelsea.
On his return to England the King greeted Lord Finch with the words: ‘My Lord, you have not only built a town, but peopled it too’. ‘Oh Sir’, was the reply, ‘I was your Majesties representative’.
King Charles II landed at Kent on his way to London to secure the throne on the 25th of May, 1660. The King arrived in Dover with 20 ships and frigates, the Lord General and his life guard was accompanied by the Earl of Winchelsea to the cheer of the crowding locals gathered upon the beach to witness a salute fired from the guns of Dover Castle.
External link:
Pepys diary.com (http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/766.php)
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