John Finch (ambassador)

Sir John Finch (1626–1682) was ambassador of England to the Ottoman Empire.

After Eton John Finch studied with More at Christ's College, Cambridge,[1] and there met his lifelong companion Sir Thomas Baines.

Following a Grand Tour of Italy, where they graduated in medicine from the University of Padua in 1656 Finch and Baines returned to Christ's as teachers in 1660, and fellows of the Royal Society.

Sir John was ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople, succeeding his uncle Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea and his cousin Daniel Harvey arriving on 18 March 1674.

[5] Their portraits by Florentine artist Carlo Dolci[6] hang in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.