Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet

Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet JP ( – 18 December 1614) was an English politician, knight, sheriff, and MP.

Early life Finch was the second, but eldest surviving son, of Sir Thomas Finch of Eastwell, Kent, and the former Catherine Moyle. Among his siblings was brother Henry Finch (MP for Canterbury and St Albans), and sister Jane Finch (who married George Wyatt of Allington Castle).

His paternal grandparents were Sir William Finch, who was knighted for his services at the siege of Therouanne, and, his first wife, Elizabeth ( Cromer) Lovelace (a daughter of Sir James Cromer of Tunstall, Kent, and widow of Sir Richard Lovelace). His maternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Moyle and the former Katherine Jordeyne (a daughters of Edward Jordeyne, a leading goldsmith at Cheapside with a manor at Raynham).

Finch was admitted of Gray's Inn in 1568.

Career Finch first entered Parliament at a by-election for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, through the influence of the 2nd Earl of Bedford, who had campaigned with his father at St. Quentin in 1557 (during the Italian War), sitting between 1576 and 1584. He later represented Kent in 1593 (the same year he was elected knight of the shire for Kent) and for Winchelsea in 1601. He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1596 and 1605.

He was knighted in 1585 and he was created a Baronet, of Eastwell in the County of Kent, in 1611.

Personal life In 1573, Finch married Elizabeth Heneage, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Heneage. They had a daughter Anne who was a writer: she married Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet.

Sir Theophilius Finch, 2nd Baronet (1573–1619), who married Agnes Heydon, only child of Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorpe. After her death, he married Elizabeth (née Cradock) Bennett, a daughter of William Cradock and the widow of Richard Bennett. Hon. Francis Finch (b. ), a barrister and MP for Eye.