The Right Honourable
The Earl of Winchilsea
OBE DSC
Personal details
Born
Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton

(1885-05-28)28 May 1885
Died10 February 1939(1939-02-10) (aged 53)
London, England
Spouse
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(m. 1910)​
Children
Parents
RelativesDenys Finch Hatton (brother)
Sir Henry Codrington (grandfather)
George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea (grandfather)
EducationEton College
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea and 9th Earl of Nottingham OBE DSC (28 May 1885 – 10 February 1939) was an English peer and banker. Finch-Hatton was brother to renowned big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton. His daughter married Whitney Straight, of the American Whitney family.

Early life

Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton was born on 28 May 1885. He was the son of Henry Stormont Finch-Hatton (1852–1927) and the former Anne Jane Codrington.[1] His two siblings were Gladys Margaret Finch-Hatton (who married Capt. Osmond Williams, a son of Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet) and Denys Finch Hatton, a noted big-game hunter.[2]

Finch-Hatton's father was the second son of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea by his third wife Frances Margaretta (née Rice) Finch-Hatton (the eldest daughter of Edward Royd Rice MP of Dane Court and Elizabeth Austen, daughter of Edward Austen Knight). through his paternal grandmother he is related to Jane Austen, through his great grandmother Lady Elizabeth Murray he is related to Earls of Mansfields.

His maternal grandparents were Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Codrington and Helen Jane (née Smith) Codrington (a daughter of C. Webb Smith).[3]

He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.[4]

Career

In 1908, he was Lieut with the Royal Engineers. During World War I, he served as Lt Cmdr Royal Naval Reserve from 1915 to 1917 and Lt Col Royal Air Force from 1917 to 1918. He was awarded Distinguished Service Cross and officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. From 1922 until his death in 1939, he was treasurer of St George's Hospital.[3] In 1927, Finch-Hatton acceded to the title upon the death of his father, Henry Finch-Hatton, the 13th Earl of Winchilsea.[3]

Shortly after his marriage in 1910, he became a member of the London Stock Exchange and a partner in the firm of Kitcat & Aitken, one of the leading firms of Bishopsgate Street.[4] Lord Winchilsea was also a partner in securities firm of William P. Bonbright & Co. of London and New York.[4] His brother-in-law John Armstrong Drexel was also a partner in the firm.[5]

Personal life

Photograph of his wife, Margaretta, from The Book of Fair Women by E.O. Hoppé, 1922

On 8 June 1910, Viscount Maidstone married Margaretta Armstrong Drexel (1885–1952) at St Margaret's, Westminster by the Bishop of London. The reception was held at the Drexel home in 22 Grosvenor Square attended by 1,500 guests.[6] Margaretta, who had been presented at court in 1908 by Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, the Duchess of Connaught, was the daughter of Margarita (née Armstrong) Drexel and Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr., and the granddaughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel, a member of the wealthy Philadelphia banking dynasty.[7] Her parents divorced in 1917 and her mother married Brinsley FitzGerald (the son of Peter FitzGerald, 1st Baronet of Valencia) in 1918.[8]Margaretta's first cousin was Princess de Braganza. Together, Guy and Margaretta were the parents of three children:

Finch-Hatton died in London on 10 February 1939,[4] at the age of 53 and was buried at Ewerby in Lincolnshire.[3] His widow died in London in 1952.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Henry Stormont Finch Hatton". Marriage licence. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 Lundy, Darryl. "Henry Stormont Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Winchilsea, Earl of (E, 1628)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "EARL OF WINCHILSEA, 14TH TO HOLD TITLE; Married A.J. Drexel's Daughter in Brilliant Ceremony in 1910" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 February 1939. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "J.A. Drexel on 2 Bank Boards" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 June 1934. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "MISS DREXEL WEDS VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE; St. Margaret's, Westminster, Thronged at Nuptials of Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Drexel. 8,000 OUTSIDE THE CHURCH Many Americans Attend Ceremony—Ten Pretty Bridesmaids in Procession—Reception at Drexel Home" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 June 1910. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "MISS DREXEL IS ENGAGED.; Will Marry in London Viscount Maidstone. Heir to Two Earldoms" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 February 1910. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  8. ↑ "MRS. BRINSLEY FITZGERALD" (PDF). The New York Times. 13 February 1948. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Gladys Szechenyi Becomes Bride Of Viscount Maidstone in London: Nobility and Ambassadors of Many Countries Attend Brilliant Church Ceremony — Both Are Members of Prominent European and American Families". The New York Times. 12 July 1935. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Countess of Winchilsea Dies" (PDF). The New York Times. 24 June 1964. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "Whitney Straight to Wed in England". The New York Times. 11 April 1935. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Deaths STRAIGHT, LADY DAPHNE MARGARITA". The New York Times. 5 June 2003. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "DAUGHTER OF EARL ENGAGED TO MARRY; Lady Henrietta Finch-Hatton Affianced in England to Peter Frank Tiarks NIECE OF A. J. DREXEL JR. Father Is Lord Winchelsea—She Is Kin by Marriage of Vanderbilts and Whitneys" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 February 1938. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  14. ↑ Staff. "The Tiarks family of Chislehurst". kemnal-road.org.uk. Kemnal Road, Chislehurst, Kent. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "U.S. Born Countess, Former Miss Drexel" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 December 1952. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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