The Honourable and Reverend Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton (5 May 1795 – 3 January 1866), was a Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Rector of Weldon, Northamptonshire.
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Early life
Finch-Hatton was born at Eastwell Park on 5 May 1795. He was the third son of George Finch-Hatton, MP for Rochester, and Lady Elizabeth Murray, daughter of David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield. His grandfather was the Hon. Edward Finch-Hatton, youngest son of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and Anne Hatton. His eldest brother was George William Finch-Hatton, later 10th Earl of Winchilsea. Later in 1841, Queen Victoria granted all his siblings the style and precedence of the son/daughter of an earl by royal warrant, as if their father had outlived his first cousin and became Earl of Winchilsea.
Jane Austen visited Eastwell in 1805 and said, "George (his brother) is a fine boy, and well behaved, but Daniel (then 10 y.o) chiefly delighted me; the good humour of his countenance is quite bewitching. After tea we had a cribbage-table, and he and I won two rubbers of his brother and Mrs. Mary (Finch, his aunt), Mr. Brett was the only person there, besides our two families."