# Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton

The Honourable Reverend Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton (1795-1866), was a Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Rector of Weldon, Northamptonshire.

## Early life

He was born at Eastwell Park, the third son of George Finch-Hatton and Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield. 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.
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."
He was educated at Wesminster and Christ's College (B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821) and later became a reverend and rector of Great Weldon, Northampthonshire appointed in 1823, where his family owned Kirby Hall and some lands there. The living provided £430 a year.

## Marriage

On 15 December 1825, Finch-Hatton married Lady Louisa Greville (1800-1883), daughter of Hon. Robert Fulke Greville and Louisa, 2nd Countess of Mansfield (who was previously his mother's stepmother). They had:
* Edward Hatton Finch-Hatton (b. 1826 - 1887)
* Rev. William Robert Finch-Hatton (b. 1827 - 1909) m. Agnes Graham Oxenden (sister of Sir Percy), had many issues.
* Isabella Finch-Hatton (b. 1845 - 1927) m. Sir Percy Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet of Broome Park, had issues.
In 1831, Lord Winchilsea presented his brother at court of St James's Palace to King William IV, on being appointed Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his majesty.
In 1844, his distant cousin the 2nd Marquess of Exeter invited him and his niece Lady Caroline, alongside their spouses, to a banquet of limited sets at Burghley House during Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's royal visit there.
He has interest in his great grandmother Anne Hatton's story, in which she and her father were saved after an explosion in the castle, he also created a copy of it titled "Lord Hatton's account of Castle Cornet" (poetry). The original believed to be lost, but it was discovered that Daniel had made a duplicate of the original, which was later published in 1873.

## Inheritance
### Family

Finch-Hatton inherited some money and silverware from his mother Lady Elizabeth when she died. She had previously devised her fortune among her 5 younger children equally. He inherited about £2500 and her stocks of £10,000 invested in 3 percent, her father the 2nd Earl further left his grandchildren £3000 each. Previously when his father died, he also left him in his will £10,000.
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 £1500 bank stock to his wife Lady Louisa. He also left their children £3000 bank stock. He received in total about £30,000

### 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. His estates in Cambridgeshire generated about £4000 a year.
Hatton become Lord of the manor in Willingham in the county of Cambridge in 1846.
He died aged 70 at Turquay, Devon and was buried at Weldon.

## Ancestry

Ancestors of Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton :