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HENEAGE FINCH (1621—1682)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FINCH (1621—1682) , first See also:earl of See also:Nottingham in the Finch See also:line, See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, was descended from an old See also:family (see FINCH, FINCH-See also:HATTON), many of whose members had attained to high legal See also:eminence, and was the eldest son of See also:Sir Heneage Finch, See also:recorder of See also:London, by his first wife Frances, daughter of Sir See also:Edmund See also:Bell of Beaupre See also:Hall, See also:Norfolk. In the See also:register of See also:Oxford university he is entered as See also:born in See also:Kent on the 23rd of See also:December 1621, and probably his native See also:place was Eastwell in that See also:county. He was educated at See also:Westminster and at See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford, where he remained till he became a member of the Inner See also:Temple in 1638. He was called to the See also:bar in 1645, and soon obtained a lucrative practice. He was a member of the See also:convention See also:parliament of See also:April 166o, and shortly afterwards was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general, being created a See also:baronet the See also:day after he was knighted. In May of the following See also:year he was chosen to represent the university of Oxford, and in 1665 the university created him a D.C.L. In 167o he became See also:attorney-general, and in 1675 lord chancellor. He was created See also:Baron Finch in 1674, and earl of Nottingham in May 1681. He died in See also:Great See also:Queen See also:Street, London, on the 18th of December 1682, and was buried in the church of See also:Raven-See also:stone in Bucks. His contemporaries of both sides of politics agree in their high estimate of his integrity, moderation and eloquence, while his abilities as a lawyer are sufficiently attested by the fact that he is still spoken of as " the See also:father of See also:equity." His most important contribution to the See also:statute See also:book is " The Statute of Frauds." While attorney-general he superintended the edition of Sir See also:Henry See also:Hobart's Reports (1671). He also published Several Speeches and Discourses in the Tryal of the See also:Judges of See also:King See also:Charles I. (166o) ; Speeches to both Houses of Parliament (1699) ; Speech at the See also:Sentence of See also:Viscount See also:Stafford (168o).

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