2nd Earl of Essex). Before her death in 1673, they were the parents of: William Finch, styled Viscount Maidstone (–1672), who died at sea aboard the Royal Charles during the Battle of Solebay; he married Elizabeth Wyndham, a daughter of Thomas Wyndham, of Felbrigg Hall. Lady Frances Finch (d. 1712), who married Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth. Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea (1657–1726), who married Anne Kingsmill, the daughter of Sir William Kingsmill. Hon. Thomas Finch (b. 1658), who was born before the family went to the Ottoman Empire. His third marriage was to Catherine Norcliffe on 10 April 1673. The daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliffe and Hon. Dorothy Fairfax (fifth daughter of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Viscount Fairfax), she was twice a widow from her marriages to Christopher Lister, of Thornton, York, and Sir John Wentworth, of Elmshall, York. She died in . His final marriage was on 29 October 1681 to Elizabeth Ayres, only daughter and heiress of John Ayres of London. Before his death in 1689, they were the parents of: John Finch, 6th Earl of Winchilsea, who died unmarried and without issue. Lord Winchilsea died on 28 September 1689. He was succeeded in his titles by his grandson Charles, as his eldest son William predeceased him. Descendants Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Henry Thynne (1675–1708), and Frances Thynne (who married Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet). References External links pepysdiary.com The Earls of Winchilsea A True and Exact Relation of the Late Prodigious Earthquake & eruption of Mount Aetna, or Monte-Gibello – full digital facsimile at Linda Hall Library Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea at The British Museum |- 1628 births 1689 deaths 17th-century English nobility 03 Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 01 Lord-Lieutenants of Kent Lord-Lieutenants of Somerset Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports Finch Heneage 17th-century English diplomats People from Winchelsea