Edward Finch-Hatton (c.1697 – 16 May 1771) of Kirby Hall, near Rockingham, Northamptonshire, was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 41 years from 1727 to 1768.

He was educated at a school at Isleworth and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 10 October 1713, aged 16, where he obtained an M.A.

In 1724, Finch began a diplomatic career, representing Great Britain as envoy-extraordinary to the imperial diet of Regensburg in the winter of 1724 to 1725, then successively as Minister to Poland, Sweden and Russia between 1725 and 1742 (His letters from Russia have been published in: Сборник Императорского русского исторического общества, том 85: Дипломатическая переписка английских посланников при русском дворе с 1740 г. по 3 марта 1741 г., С -Петербург 1893).

[4]At the 1754 general election Finch was returned unopposed for Cambridge University, and stood unsuccessfully for Rutland.

He became Master of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy Purse in June 1757 and Surveyor of the King's Private Roads in November 1760.