Henry Finch (died 1625)

Sir Henry Finch (died 1625) was an English lawyer and politician, created serjeant-at-law and knighted, and remembered as a legal writer.

He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, under Laurence Chaderton, graduating BA, and was admitted of Gray's Inn in 1577, and called to the bar there in 1585.

At this time he was engaged, in conjunction with Francis Bacon, William Noy, and others, in an abortive attempt to codify the statute law.

In 1621 he published a work entitled The World's Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews, and with them of all Nations and Kingdoms of the Earth to the Faith of Christ.

[3] The original published version was in law French; it is believed that in an earlier draft it was written in the 1580s, and under the influence of Ramist logic.

[4] Finch had also studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, under Laurence Chaderton, a centre for the reception of Ramism in England.