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  • The Right Honourable
  • The Earl of Winchilsea
Earl of Winchilsea
Tenure 1726–1729
Predecessor Heneage Finch
Successor Daniel Finch
Other titles
  • Viscount Maidstone
  • Baron FitzHerbert
  • Baronet of Eastwell, Kent
Born John Finch
(1682-02-24)24 February 1682
Eastwell, Kent, England
Died 9 September 1729(1729-09-09) (aged 47)
Buried Westminster Abbey, London, England
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Arms of Finch: Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable

John Finch, 6th Earl of Winchilsea (24 February 1682/83 – 9 September 1729) was an English peer.

He was a son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea and his fourth wife Elizabeth Ayres (who died 10 April 1745). He was christened on 6 March 1683 in Eastwell, Kent, England

After the death of his older unmarried half-brother Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea in 1726 John Finch succeeded him.

He died unmarried too on 9 September 1729 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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