Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea

His father inherited his grandfather's baronetcy from his uncle, Sir Theophilus Finch, 2nd Baronet, who died without issue in 1619.

His maternal grandparents were John Wentworth, High Sheriff of Essex and Cecily Unton.

[3] On his return from Ottoman territory in June 1668, King Charles II remarked to Finch, "My Lord, you have not only built a town, but peopled it too".

Winchilsea, in an obvious reference to Charles' own brood of natural children, replied that after all, he was the King's representative.

[citation needed] The King created him Baron FitzHerbert, of Eastwell in the County of Kent, on 26 June 1660.