Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea

Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea

Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea and 7th Earl of Nottingham (28 March 1851–7 September 1898), styled the Hon. Murray Finch-Hatton until 1887, was a British Conservative politician and agriculturalist.

Winchilsea and Nottingham was the eldest son of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and 5th Earl of Nottingham, famous for his 1829 duel with the Duke of Wellington, by his third wife Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Edward Royd Rice. His country residence was at Haverholme Priory, Lincolnshire. He entered Parliament for Lincolnshire South in a 1884 by-election, a seat he held until the following year, when the constituency was abolished. He then represented Spalding from 1885 to 1887, when he succeeded his half-brother in the two earldoms and entered the House of Lords. He was particularly interested in agricultural questions, where he sought to improve the conditions of agricultural workers.[1] He was also a great motoring enthusiast, and played a leading role at the very first London to Brighton Car Run on 14 November 1896, symbolically tearing a red flag in two to start the event, and presiding at the dinner which took place in Brighton at its conclusion.[2]

Lord Winchilsea and Nottingham married Edith, daughter of Edward William Harcourt, in 1875. Their only son George Edward Henry Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, died in March 1892 at the age of nine. Winchilsea and Nottingham died in September 1898, aged 47. He was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother, the Hon. Henry Finch-Hatton. The Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham died in January 1944. Their only surviving child Lady Muriel Finch-Hatton (1876-1938) married Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget of Cranmore Hall, 2nd Baronet (1869-1955) and left issue, including their grandsons Alexander Chancellor, the father of model Cecilia Chancellor, and John Paget Chancellor, who married the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe (daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton), the parents of actress Anna Chancellor.

References

  1. ^ Paul Readman. Conservatives and the Politics of Land: Lord Winchilsea's National Agricultural Union, 1893–1901. The English Historical Review CXXI (2006), pp. 25-69.
  2. ^ Wilfrid Blunt. Lady Muriel: Lady Muriel Paget, her Husband, and her Philanthropic Work in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962, p. 6.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir William Welby-Gregory
John Compton Lawrance
Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire South
1884 – 1885
With: John Compton Lawrance
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Spalding
1885 – 1887
Succeeded by
Halley Stewart
Peerage of England
Preceded by
George James Finch-Hatton
Earl of Winchilsea
1887–1898
Succeeded by
Henry Finch-Hatton
Earl of Nottingham
7th creation
1887–1898
Viscount Maidstone
1887–1898
Baron Finch of Daventry
1887–1898
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
George James Finch-Hatton
Baronet
(of Raunston, Buckinghamshire)
1887–1898
Succeeded by
Henry Finch-Hatton
Baronet
(of Eastwell, Kent)
1887–1898

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