Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (October 1668 – 26 September 1743), formerly Anne Hatton, was daughter of 1st Viscount Hatton and the second wife of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and the mother of Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea.
[2] During an explosion at Castle Cornet on 30 December 1672, her mother and grandmother were killed, while she alongside her young siblings were rescued from the rubbles by her father's black servant named James Chappell.
[3] Her mother, Lady Cecilia Tufton was the fourth daughter of John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet and Lady Margaret Sackville (eldest daughter and sole heiress of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset and Lady Anne Clifford, Baroness Clifford).
The earl's first wife, the former Lady Essex Rich,[4] died in childbirth in 1684, leaving one surviving daughter (Lady Mary Finch, who married William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax and John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe).
[5] From Anne's twenty-two pregnancies, the couple had at least thirteen surviving children, including:[6] Lady Nottingham died on 26 September 1743.