Sir Heneage Finch was an English

Kingdom of England

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 lawyer

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 and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1607 and 1626. He was Speaker of the English House of Commons in 1626.
Finch was the son of Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet

Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet

Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet was an English politician.He was the eldest surviving son of Sir Thomas Finch of Eastwell, Kent and the brother of Henry Finch....

 of Eastwell, Kent and his wife Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea

Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea

Elizabeth Finch, née Heneage, 1st Countess of Winchilsea was an English peeress.Elizabeth was the daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Heneage, who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the latter years of the reign of Elizabeth I...

. He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge

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 in about 1592 and was awarded BA in 1596. He was admitted at Inner Temple

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 in 1597 and called to the bar in 1606.

In 1607 Finch was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Rye

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. He became recorder of London in 1621 and held the post until his death in 1631. Also in 1621 he was elected MP for West Looe

West Looe (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was knighted on 22 June 1623 and became sergeant-at-law.

In 1624, Finch was elected MP for the City of London

City of London (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was re-elected MP for the CIty of London in 1625 and in 1626 and was chosen to serve as Speaker of the House for his last term in 1626.

Finch died at the age of 51 and was buried at Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire.

Finch had seven sons and four daughters. One of his sons was Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham

Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham

Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, PC , Lord Chancellor of England, was descended from the old family of Finch, many of whose members had attained high legal eminence, and was the eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch, recorder of London, by his first wife Frances Bell, daughter of Sir Edmond Bell of...

. His daughter Anne

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Leibniz....

 married Edward Conway, Viscount Conway

Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway

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, and was a philosopher in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists

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 and an influence on Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz

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