Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham,
PC (23 December 1621 – 1682),
Lord Chancellor of
England, was descended from the old family of
Finch, many of whose members had attained high legal eminence, and was the eldest son of
Sir Heneage Finch,
Recorder of London, by his first wife Frances Bell, daughter of
Sir Edmond Bell of
Beaupre Hall,
Norfolk.