Background
Finch was the son of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea, and the grandson of Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea.
Finch was the son of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea, and the grandson of Elizabeth Finch, 1st Countess of Winchilsea.
He was educated at Queens" College, Cambridge.
"His contemporaries called him "amorous", and in Turkey he was reputed to have "had many women" and "built little houses for them". " On his return from Ottoman territory in June 1668, King Charles II remarked to Finch, "My Lord, you have not only built a town, but peopled it too". Samuel Pepys first referred to him as the Lord Winchilsea.
King Charles II had landed at Kent on his way to London to secure the throne on 25 May 1660.
The King arrived in Dover with 20 ships and frigates, the Lord General and his life guard was accompanied by the Earl of Winchelsea to the cheer of the crowding locals gathered upon the beach to witness a salute fired from the guns of Dover Castle.