Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5 May 1795
The Honourable Reverend Daniel Finch-Hatton | |
|---|---|
 Miniature of Daniel (or his older brother George William), by John Smart, c. 1811 | |
| Born | Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton 5 May 1795 |
| Died | 3 January 1866 (aged 70) |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Spouse |
Lady Louisa Greville
(m. 1825; died 1866) |
| Parent(s) | George Finch-Hatton Lady Elizabeth Murray |
| Relatives | George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea (brother) David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (grandfather) Hon. Edward Finch-Hatton (grandfather) |
The Honourable and Reverend Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton (5 May 1795 – 3 January 1866), was a Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Rector of Weldon, Northamptonshire.[1][2]
Finch-Hatton was born at Eastwell Park on 5 May 1795. He was the third son of George Finch-Hatton, MP for Rochester, and Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield.[3] His grandfather was the Hon. Edward Finch-Hatton, youngest son of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and Anne Hatton. His eldest brother was George William Finch-Hatton, later 10th Earl of Winchilsea. Later in 1841, Queen Victoria granted all his siblings the style and precedence of the son/daughter of an earl by royal warrant, as if their father had outlived his first cousin and became Earl of Winchilsea.[4]
Jane Austen visited Eastwell in 1805 and said, "George (his brother) is a fine boy, and well behaved, but Daniel (then 10 y.o) chiefly delighted me; the good humour of his countenance is quite bewitching. After tea we had a cribbage-table, and he and I won two rubbers of his brother and Mrs. Mary (Finch, his aunt), Mr. Brett was the only person there, besides our two families."[5]
He was educated at Westminster and Christ's College, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1818 and a Master of Arts in 1821.[6]
Career
Finch-Hatton was ordained as a Reverend into the Church of England and in 1823 was appointed Rector of Great Weldon, Northampthonshire, where his family owned Kirby Hall and some lands there.[1] The living provided £430 a year.[7]
Inheritance
Finch-Hatton inherited some money and silverware from his mother Lady Elizabeth when she died in June 1825. She had previously devised her fortune among her 5 younger children equally. He inherited about £2,500 and her stocks of £10,000 invested in 3 percent, her father the 2nd Earl further left his grandchildren £3,000 each.[8] Previously when his father died, he also left him in his will £10,000.[9]
When his uncle John Emilius Daniel Edward Finch-Hatton died in 1841 at Sandhurst Rectory, Kent (home of his sister Lady Emily), he left £500 to Daniel and £1,500 bank stock to his wife Lady Louisa. He also left their children £3,000 bank stock. He received in total about £30,000.[10]
Hatton Baronets
In 1840s, Finch-Hatton was also made heir to their very distant relative of the Hatton Baronets. The 10th Baronet having died without issue in 1812 and left his sisters co-heiresses, the unmarried sisters passed the estates down to the surviving sisters successively until Elizabeth Ann Hatton, who died in 1845. Daniel then inherited from them the Hatton Longstanton estates.[11] His estates in Cambridgeshire generated about £4,000 a year.[12][13][14]
Hatton become Lord of the manor in Willingham in the county of Cambridge in 1846.[15]
