Background
Lord Aylesford was the elder son of Charles Finch-Knightley, 10th Earl of Aylesford, by Aileen Jane, daughter of William McCormac Boyle.
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Charles Ian Finch-Knightley
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Education
He was educated at Oundle School.
Career
He served in the Second World War where he was wounded. After the war he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire in 1948 and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1954. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1958.
In 1974 he was appointed to the new post of Lord-Lieutenant of the West Midlands, a position he held until 1993.
Aylesford resided at Packington Old Hall, Warwickshire. The growth of the waste industry in the 1980s was a boon to Lord Aylesford.
His father had left the estate at Packington with huge death duties. The mining extraction created a huge hole in the estate: the decision made after the flurry of new legislation to fill it with landfill waste.
The success of this project led by the agent on the site, helped a whole new industry begin.
The Earl made a profit, as his agent created a new hill above the park covering a plateau of several acres. The consequence of this was for government re-cycling models in favour of landlfill.
