[1] There's a letter from the Austen collection that said "all the young ladies were in love with George Hatton - he was very handsome and agreeable, danced very well, and flirted famously", "those who knew the warm hearted generosity of his nature, the sterling worth of his character, will not be surprised that he enjoyed popularity in his youth".

[4] He presided at a very large and influential meeting held on Penenden Heath, Kent, on 10 October 1828, when strongly worded resolutions in favour of Protestant principles were carried.

He was particularly noted as being almost the only English nobleman who was willing to identify himself with the Orange party in Ireland, and he was accustomed to denouncing in frantic terms Daniel O'Connell and the system of education carried out in St Patrick's College, Maynooth.

The Roman Catholic Relief Bill 1829 encountered his most vehement hostility, and ultimately led to a duel with his fellow Tory, the Duke of Wellington.

Lord Winchilsea, in a letter to the secretary of King's College London, wrote that the duke, "under the cloak of some coloured show of zeal for the Protestant religion, carried on an insidious design for the infringement of our liberties and the introduction of popery into every department of the state".

The meeting took place in Battersea Fields on 21 March 1829, the duke being attended by Sir Henry Hardinge, and Winchilsea by Edward Boscawen, 4th Viscount Falmouth.

He was gazetted lieutenant-colonel commandant of the East Kent Yeomanry on 20 December 1830, named a deputy-lieutenant for the county of Lincoln on 26 September 1831, and created a D.C.L.

During Sir Jenison's occupancy of Haverholme Priory, he already had made substantial additions and improvements to the house, “and in a style corresponding to the circumstances of the place”.His London residence was on 20 Wilton Crescent, Belgravia.

In 1828, Young future Queen Victoria and her mother, Duchess of Kent paid a visit to Lord Winchilsea and stayed for two days at Eastwell Park, before their return to Kensington Palace.

Daniel Finch-Hatton, alongside their spouses, Christopher Turnor and Lady Louisa Greville, to a banquet of limited sets at Burghley House for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's visit there.

[4] He was the writer of a pamphlet entitled Earl of Winchilsea's Letter to the "Times", calling upon the Protestants of Great Britain to unite heart and soul in addressing the Throne for a Dissolution of Parliament, 1851.