Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea and 9th Earl of Nottingham OBE

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(28 May 1885 – 10 February 1939) was an English peer and banker. Finch-Hatton was brother to renowned

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and his daughter married

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, of the American

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Early life

Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton was born on 28 May 1885. He was the son of Henry Finch-Hatton (1852–1927) and the former Anne Jane Codrington. His two siblings were Gladys Margaret Finch-Hatton (who married Capt. Osmond Williams, a son of

Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet Sir Arthur Osmond Wynn Williams JP DL (17 March 1849 – 28 January 1927) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician. Early life He was born at Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, Merionethshire, Wales on 17 March 1849. He was the eldest surviving son of ...

) and

, a noted

. Finch-Hatton's father was the second son of

George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea George William Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea, 5th Earl of Nottingham (19 May 1791 – 8 January 1858) was an English politician known for duelling with the then Prime Minister, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Early life Hatton, ...

by his third wife Frances Margaretta (née Rice) Finch-Hatton (the eldest daughter of

Edward Royd Rice Edward Royd Rice (25 April 1790 – 27 November 1878) was an English politician and first-class cricketer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dover from 1847 to 1857. In cricket, he was associated with Middlesex and was active from 1826 to ...

MP of Dane Court). His maternal grandparents were Admiral of the Fleet Sir

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and Helen Jane (née Smith) Codrington (a daughter of C. Webb Smith). He was educated at

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and

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Career

In 1908, he was Lieut with the

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. During

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, he served as Lt Cmdr

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from 1915 to 1917 and

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from 1917 to 1918. He was awarded

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and officer of the

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in 1919. From 1922 until his death in 1939, he was treasurer of

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. In 1927, Finch-Hatton acceded to the title upon the death of his father, Henry Finch-Hatton, the 13th Earl of Winchilsea. Shortly after his marriage in 1910, he became a member of the

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and a partner in the firm of Kitcat & Aitken, one of the leading firms of

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. Lord Winchilsea was also a partner in securities firm of William P. Bonbright & Co. of London and New York. His brother-in-law

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was also a partner in the firm.

Personal life

On 8 June 1910, Viscount Maidstone married Margaretta Armstrong Drexel (1885–1952) at

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by the

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. The reception was held at the Drexel home in

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. Margaretta, who had been presented at court in 1908 by

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, the

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, was the daughter of Margarita (née Armstrong) Drexel and Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr., and the granddaughter of

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, a member of the wealthy Philadelphia banking dynasty. Her parents divorced in 1917 and her mother married

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(the son of Peter FitzGerald, 1st Baronet of Valencia) in 1918. Together, Guy and Margaretta were the parents of three children: *

Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hatton (2 August 1911 – 7 March 1950) was the 15th Earl of Winchilsea and 10th Earl of Nottingham. He acceded to the titles in 1939 on the death of his father, Guy Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea. His mother ...

(1911–1950), who married Countess Gladys Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék, daughter of Count László Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék, of the Hungarian noble Széchényi family, and

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, a member of the American

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. They divorced in 1945 and he married Agnes Mary Conroy in 1946. * Lady Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton (1913–2003), who married

(1912–1979), a member of the

, in 1935. * Lady Henrietta Diana Juanita Finch-Hatton (1917–1977), who married Peter Frank Tiarks (1910–1975). Finch-Hatton died in London on 10 February 1939, at the age of 53 and was buried at

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in Lincolnshire. His widow died in London in 1952.

References

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