1st wife. He was sum. v.p. in his father's Barony as Lord Howard of Effingham, by writs, 19 March 1602/3, to 5 April 1614. He d. v.p. and s.p.m., 28 Nov. 1615, aged 38, when that Barony reverted to his father. See fuller particulars under "Howard of Effingham " Barony, cr. 1554.]
XI. 1624. 2. Charles (Howard), Earl of Nottingham, and Baron Howard of Effingham, 2d but 1st surv, s. and h. male, b. at the Manor Place, Blechingley, Surrey, 17, and bap. 24 Sep. 1579, registered at Reigate; M.P. for Blechingley, Oct. to Nov. 1597; for Surrey, 1597-98; for Sussex, 1601-11, and for Shoreham, 1614; knighted at the Charterhouse, 11 May 1603; styled Lord Howard since his brother's death in Nov. 1616 till he suc. to the peerage (as Earl of Nottingham) in Dec. 1624; Lord Lieut. of Surrey, 1626, being again so nom. by Parl. in 1642. He m. firstly, 19 May 1597, at Sheffield, in Fletching, co. Sussex, Charity, widow of William Leca, of Sheffield afsd., da. of Robert White, of Christchurch, Hants. She d. 18 and was bur, 20 Dec. 1618, at Fletching. He m. secondly, 22 April 1620, at St. Peter le Poor, London, Mary,(a)[1] sister of Charles, 1st Viscount Cullen [I.], 1st da. of Sir William to 1681.Cokatne}}, of Rushton, co. Northampton, sometime (1619) Lord Mayor of London, by Mary, da. of Richard Morris, of St. Leonard's Eastcheap, London. He d. s.p. at Leatherhead, and was bur. 8 Oct. 1642, at Reignte. Will dat. 20 Aug., pr. 4 Nov. 1642. His widow, who was bap. 12 Oct. 1598, at St. Andrew's Undershaft, London, d. 6 and was bur. 11 Feb. 1650/1, at Reigate, aged about 51. Nunc. will pr. 18 Feb. 1650/1.
XII. 1642, to 1681. 3. Charles (Howard), Earl of Nottingham, and Baron Howard of Effingham, br. (of the half blood) and h. male, being 1st. s. of the 1st Earl by his second wife. He was b. 25 Dec. 1610, at Haling house, and bap. at Croydon; knighted at Theobalds, 2 April 1624; M.P. for Gatton, 1625-29; High Steward of Kingston on Thames, 1642-57; First Commissioner (from the Parl.) to Scotland, 1648. He m. Arabella, sister of Sir Edward Smith, Lord Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas [I.], da. of Edward Smith, of the Middle Temple, London. He d. s.p. at Mortlake, Surrey, 26 April 1681, and was bur. at Reigate, when the Earldom of Nottingham became extinct (b)[2] but the Barony of Howard of Eflingham passed to his cousin and h. male. See that dignity. Will dat. 2 Dec. 1675, pr. 27 April 1681, His widow d. 16 and was bur. 18 Jan. 1681/2, at St. Mary le Strand, Midx.
XIII. 1681. 1. Henrage (Finch) Baron Finch of Daventry, Lord Chancellor, was cr., 12 May 1681, Earl of Nottingham. He was s. and h. of the Hon. Sir Heneage FINCH, of Kensington, sometime Recorder of London and Speaker of the House of Commons, by his first wife, Frances, da. of Sir Edmund Bell, of Beaupre Hall, Norfolk, which Heneage last named was 3d s. of Elizabeth, suo jure Countess of Winchilsea. He was b. 23 Dec. 1621, in Kent, (probably at Eastwell); ed. at Westm. School and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; matric. 18 Feb. 1635/6; Barrister (Inner Temple), 1645; Treasurer, 1661-72; Solicitor General, 6 June 1660, and, having been knighted, was cr. next day, 7 June 1660, a Baionet, as of Raunston, Bucks. "The trials of the Regicides were conducted wholly by him and the proceedings were carried on with exemplary fairness and judgment."[3] He was M.P. for Canterbury in the Convention Parl. of 1660 and for Oxford Univ., 1661 to 1673; D.C.L. of Oxford, 7 Nov. 1665; Attorney General, 1670-73; P.C., 1673; Keeper of the Great Seal, 1673, becoming in 1675 Lord Chancellor till his death in 1682. He was cr., 10 Jan. 1673, BARON FINCH OF DAVENTRY, co. Northampton. Lord High Steward on several occasions, viz., June 1676, March and April 1678, May 1679, and Nov. 1680, for the trials of (1) Lord Cornwallis (2) the Earl of Pembroke (3) the Earl of Danby
(4) the Earl of Powis, the
- ↑ (a) "A handsome young woman, they say, to bestow on a man so worn out in state, credit. years, and otherwise." [J. Chamberlain to Sir D. Carleton, 29 April 1620.]
- ↑ (b) This Earl of Nottingham appears to have been the last of this line who was in remainder to the Dukedom of Norfolk (as restored by act of Parl., 29 Dec. 1660), and to the office of Earl Marshal of England, as cr., 19 Oct. 1672, the limitation of both of these dignities not, apparently, extending to the subsequent Lords Howard of Effingham, who were descended from Sir William Howard, a younger brother of Charles, 1st Earl of Nottingham. See tabular pedigree, p. 50, note "d," sub "Norfolk."
- ↑ (c) Foss's "Judges."
