Anne Finch, Countess of Nottingham

Anne was the daughter of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, and his wife, the former Lady Cecilia Tufton.[1] Her mother was killed in an explosion at Castle Cornet on 30 December 1672. From her father's second marriage, she had two younger half-brothers, William Hatton, 2nd Viscount Hatton and Henry Hatton, 3rd Viscount Hatton.[2]

Her paternal grandparents were Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton and the former Elizabeth Montagu (daughter of Sir Charles Montagu).[2] Her mother, Cecilia Tufton was the fourth daughter of John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet and Lady Margaret Sackville (eldest daughter and co-heiress of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset and Lady Anne Clifford, Baroness Clifford).[2]

On 29 December 1685, she was married to Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, who was more than twenty years her senior. The earl's first wife, the former Lady Essex Rich,[3] died in childbirth in 1684, leaving one surviving daughter (Lady Mary Finch, who married William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax and John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe).[4] From Anne's twenty-two pregnancies, the couple had at least thirteen surviving children, including:[5]

• Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea (1689–1769), who was married twice, first to Lady Frances Feilding, and second to Mary Palmer, but had no sons.
• William Finch (1690–1766), who married Charlotte Fermor, and was the father of George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea.
• John Finch (1692–1763), who had one daughter.
• Henry Finch (1694–1761),[6] whose illegitimate daughter, Charlotte (d. 5 April 1810), married Thomas Raikes, Governor of the Bank of England
• Edward Finch (1697–1771), who became a diplomat and married Elizabeth Palmer. He later took the surname Finch-Hatton, and was the grandfather of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea.
• Essex Finch (1687–1721), who married Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet of Mostyn, and had children
• Lady Charlotte Finch (1693–1773), who married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and had children
• Lady (Cecilia) Isabella Finch (1700–1771), who never married but became first Lady of the Bedchamber to Princess Amelia, and was the owner of 44 Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London.[7]
• Mary Finch (1701–1761) (not to be confused with her elder half-sister of the same name from her father's first marriage), who married Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and had children
• Lady Henrietta Finch (1702–1742), who married William Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland, and had no children
• Elizabeth Finch (1704–1784), who married William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, and had no children

The countess was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Mary II of England in 1691, and served in that position until the Queen's death in 1694.[8]

Lady Nottingham died on 26 September 1743.[4]

• Anne Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea (1668-1743), Second wife of 7th Earl of Winchilsea; daughter of 1st Viscount Hatton at the National Portrait Gallery, London