Savile Finch (baptised 22 September 1736 – 20 September 1788) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1757 to 1780. Finch was the only son of the Honourable John Finch, younger son of

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. His mother was Mary, daughter and heiress of John Savile, of

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. He was baptised in Aylesford. Finch sat as a

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for

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from 1757 to 1761 and for Malton from 1761 to 1780. Finch married Judith Fullerton, daughter of John Fullerton. They had no children and Finch bequeathed the estates to his wife. After his death, she lived at

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for twenty years and when she died in 1803 left the estate to the Fullerton family. John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great ..., Volume 3''
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1730s births 1788 deaths Year of birth uncertain British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Savile Finch People from Aylesford {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub