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'''Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton''' (23 August 1856 – 16 May 1904)<ref name=ADB/> was a British [[politician]] and [[Australia]]n federationist.
'''The Hon. Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton''' (23 August 1856 – 16 May 1904)<ref name=ADB/> was a British [[politician]] and [[Australia]]n federationist.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Finch-Hatton was born in [[Eastwell Park]], [[Kent]], England,<ref name=ADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040179b.htm |title=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage (1856–1904) |accessdate=2008-10-18 |author=D. P. Crook, David Denholm |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 4 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1972 |page=168 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728165838/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040179b.htm |archive-date=28 July 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> the fourth son of [[George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea]] and his wife Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Edward Royd Rice of Dane Court, Kent and [[Edward Austen Knight|Elizabeth Austen Knight]]. He was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], and at 19 years of age went to [[Queensland]] to visit his brother [[Henry Finch-Hatton]].<ref name=ADB/> He took up land in the [[Mackay, Queensland|Mackay]] district and later worked on the Nebo goldfields. Returning to England in 1883 he published in 1885 an account of his travels ''Advance Australia!'' (2nd ed. 1886).<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138768602 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=[[The Australasian |The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=21 May 1904 |accessdate=15 May 2014 |page=36 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Finch-Hatton was born in [[Eastwell Park]], [[Kent]], England,<ref name=ADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040179b.htm |title=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage (1856–1904) |accessdate=2008-10-18 |author=D. P. Crook, David Denholm |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 4 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1972 |page=168 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728165838/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040179b.htm |archive-date=28 July 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> the fourth son of [[George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea]] and his wife Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Edward Royd Rice of Dane Court, Kent and [[Edward Austen Knight|Elizabeth Austen Knight]] (niece of [[Jane Austen]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Watercolour of Jane Austen |url=https://thericeportrait.com/a-watercolour-of-jane-austen |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen |language=en-GB |archive-date=7 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007111620/https://thericeportrait.com/a-watercolour-of-jane-austen |url-status=live }}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]], and at 19 years of age went to [[Queensland]] to visit his brother [[Henry Finch-Hatton]].<ref name=ADB/> He took up land in the [[Mackay, Queensland|Mackay]] district and later worked on the Nebo goldfields. Returning to England in 1883 he published in 1885 an account of his travels ''Advance Australia!'' (2nd ed. 1886).<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138768602 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=[[The Australasian |The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=21 May 1904 |accessdate=15 May 2014 |page=36 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>


== Royal St. David’s Golf Club ==
== Royal St. David’s Golf Club ==
Royal St. David’s Golf Club was founded by keen golfer Finch-Hatton before it was updated and extended by the acclaimed Fred Hawtree. the Prince of Wales was club captain in 1934, before being crowned [[Edward VIII|King Edward VIII]] and granting the club his royal patronage<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-20 |title=Across the drawbridge: castles & golf • Kingdom Magazine |url=https://kingdom.golf/across-drawbridge-castles-golf/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Kingdom Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> The gold course that Finch-Hatton laid out with help from William Henry More in 1894 serves as the bones for the course that is played today. The golf course overlooking great dunes to the west, to the north Snowdon Mountain, the tallest peak in both Wales and England and to the east the 13th century [[Harlech Castle]] built by Edward I.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal St. David’s Golf Club Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom |url=https://golfclubatlas.com/countries/royal-st-davids-golf-club/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.royalstdavids.co.uk/club/history/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Royal St. David’s Golf Club |language=en}}</ref>
Royal St. David’s Golf Club was founded by keen golfer Finch-Hatton before it was updated and extended by the acclaimed Fred Hawtree. the Prince of Wales was club captain in 1934, before being crowned [[Edward VIII|King Edward VIII]] and granting the club his royal patronage<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-20 |title=Across the drawbridge: castles & golf • Kingdom Magazine |url=https://kingdom.golf/across-drawbridge-castles-golf/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Kingdom Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123015256/https://kingdom.golf/across-drawbridge-castles-golf/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The gold course that Finch-Hatton laid out with help from William Henry More in 1894 serves as the bones for the course that is played today. The golf course overlooking great dunes to the west, to the north Snowdon Mountain, the tallest peak in both Wales and England and to the east the 13th century [[Harlech Castle]] built by Edward I.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Royal St. David's Golf Club Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom |url=https://golfclubatlas.com/countries/royal-st-davids-golf-club/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002085025/https://golfclubatlas.com/countries/royal-st-davids-golf-club/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.royalstdavids.co.uk/club/history/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Royal St. David’s Golf Club |language=en |archive-date=30 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130165236/https://www.royalstdavids.co.uk/club/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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==“Advance Australia!” publication==
According to The Times in 1904 this book was written in an entertaining way, but his statements about the [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]] and his views on Australian politicians must be accepted with caution.<ref name=dab>{{Dictionary of Australian Biography |First=Harold Heneage|Last=Finch-Hatton|shortlink=0-dict-biogF.html#finch-hatton1| accessdate=2008-10-05 }}</ref> Finch-Hatton's written recollections of his eight years around the Mackay area of Queensland is an account of British colonial life in the Antipodes.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Finch-Hatton|first1=Harold|title=Advance Australia!|date=1885|publisher=Allen & Co|location=Pall Mall|url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319339|accessdate=1 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801162544/https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319339|archive-date=1 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Harold Finch-Hatton Website |url=http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/finchhatton/index.html |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=www.mackayhistory.org}}</ref>

===Voyage from Singapore to Keppel Bay===
Finch-Hatton travelled aboard the ''Somerset'' which along the way, somewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, “ran down a native boat and drowned everyone in it.” They anchored off the pearling station of Somerset on Cape York where “black divers..go down and bring up the mother-of-pearl shells,” and a couple of white men have taken residence purely “to enjoy the society of black women.” Finch-Hatton writes that the Government Resident was waging an endless war against the local aboriginal clans. He eventually arrived in Keppel Bay off Rockhampton and then made his way to his brother's station near Mackay.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

===Mackay and surrounds===
A description of the frontier town of Mackay is given, including the various sheep, cattle and sugar industries that were beginning to be established around it. The implementation of the Marsupial Act is depicted where droves of marsupials were entrapped and destroyed to reduce competition for the fodder of the introduced stock. The author writes about the boiling down establishments where thousands of excess sheep and cattle were boiled down to make tallow, which ensured a basement price for all stock at £1 10s a head. Life on the nearby goldfields of Mt Britten and Canoona is described and the difficult life of a bullock driver is mentioned.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

===Aboriginals===
In a section about the types of hunting available for the sportsman in Australia, Finch Hatton writes that “away up north an occasional raid after the wild Blacks enlivens the monotony of life.” He says that just about every station has a couple of “black boys” working stockmen but “they are not much use after they get about 20 years old..they generally get sent away..and sooner or later die of drink.” Many aboriginals worked on the tobacco plantations and a school had been set up in Mackay to educate some of them. The deliberate mass poisoning of aboriginals at Long Lagoon is recounted as is the practice “when the blacks are troublesome, it is generally considered sufficient punishment to go out and shoot one or two.” He further explains that “whether the blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is certain. They are a doomed race and..they will be completely wiped out of the land.”{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

===Native Police===
Finch-Hatton also writes about the [[Native Police]], which was a force of black troopers under the command of a white officer, whose job was to “disperse” groups of aboriginals who speared livestock and, occasionally, shepherds. He narrates that the Native Police officer “knows perfectly well that unless he manages to shoot down a decent number of (blacks) before they can escape his services will soon be dispensed with.”{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

===Kanakas and Coolies===
The issues surrounding labour on the plantations is described at length. The conditions of [[Kanaka (Pacific Island worker)|Kanaka]] indentured workers kidnapped or recruited from places like the New Hebrides are mentioned. They were paid a lowly wage of £6 a year on a three-year contract, after which they were induced to spend most of this money at stores in town selling “the most utterly worthless” goods at an astronomical mark-up. Finch-Hatton tells of a riot at the Mackay races between whites and Kanakas, where in response to the Kanakas throwing bottles, the white men climbed upon their horses and charged them wielding their stirrup-irons, killing a few and driving the rest into the canefields. The political struggle between the plantation owners and those calling for compulsory employment of white labour at good wages is explained. To maintain cheap workers, the planters tried importing “coolie” labour of ethnicities including Singhalese, Malays, Indians and Maltese.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

===Imperial Federation===
Finch-Hatton was an enthusiastic advocate for Imperial Federation, where all the Englishmen in the British colonies would unite in a close racial, religious and political unity in order to realise an overwhelming global domination. He ends the book deploring the now mostly realised possibility of the Empire disintegrating and England sinking into obscurity.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}


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=="Advance Australia!" publication==
Finch-Hatton's written recollections of his eight years around the Mackay area of Queensland is an account of British colonial life in the Antipodes.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finch-Hatton |first1=Harold |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319339 |title=Advance Australia! |date=1885 |publisher=Allen & Co |location=Pall Mall |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801162544/https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:319339 |archive-date=1 August 2017 |url-status=live |accessdate=1 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Harold Finch-Hatton Website |url=http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/finchhatton/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211162647/http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/finchhatton/index.html |archive-date=11 December 2023 |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=www.mackayhistory.org}}</ref> According to The Times in 1904 this book was written in an entertaining way, but his statements about the [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]] and his views on Australian politicians must be accepted with caution.<ref name=dab>{{Dictionary of Australian Biography |First=Harold Heneage|Last=Finch-Hatton|shortlink=0-dict-biogF.html#finch-hatton1| accessdate=2008-10-05 }}</ref>
==Politics==
==Politics==
Finch-Hatton was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[British House of Commons]] in 1885, 1886 and 1892, but was returned as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] for [[Newark (UK Parliament constituency)|Newark]] in 1895. He resigned in 1898 on account of disagreement with the policy of his party of making concessions made to the Liberal Unionists.<ref name=ADB/> He was one of the founders of the [[Imperial Federation League]], and when the [[North Queensland Separation League]] was formed he was appointed chairman of the London committee. He also worked for the development of the Pacific route to Australia, and was secretary to the [[Pacific Telegraph Company]] for the formation of a line from [[Vancouver Island]] to Australia.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Finch-Hatton was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[British House of Commons]] in 1885, 1886 and 1892, but was returned as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] for [[Newark (UK Parliament constituency)|Newark]] in 1895. He resigned in 1898 on account of disagreement with the policy of his party of making concessions made to the Liberal Unionists.<ref name=ADB/> He was one of the founders of the [[Imperial Federation League]], and when the [[North Queensland Separation League]] was formed he was appointed chairman of the London committee. He also worked for the development of the Pacific route to Australia, and was secretary to the [[Pacific Telegraph Company]] for the formation of a line from [[Vancouver Island]] to Australia.<ref name="ADB" />


==Later life==
==Later life==
[[File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight by [[J. M. W. Turner]], 1799.]]
[[File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight by [[J. M. W. Turner]], 1799.]]
When not in London he henceforth lived at Harlech, and in 1903 was high sheriff of Merionethshire. Highly skilled in field sports, a good rifle shot and keen huntsman, he excelled at golf, often competing for the amateur championship. He could also throw the boomerang 'like a black.'<ref name="DNB1912"/>
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A painting of Harlech bought by Finch-Hatton turned out to be a lost oil painting by [[J. M. W. Turner]], the painting was exhibited in 1903.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkAxAQAAMAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&dq=Turner+Harlech+finch+hatton&q=Turner+Harlech+finch+hatton&hl=en |title=Truth |date=1903 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Spielmann |first=Marion Harry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mozg2vkKCp8C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA238&dq=finch+hatton+thomas+lawrence&hl=en |title=The Magazine of Art |date=1903 |publisher=Petter and Gallpin |language=en}}</ref>


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A painting of Harlech bought by Finch-Hatton turned out to be a lost oil painting by [[J. M. W. Turner]], the painting was exhibited in 1903.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkAxAQAAMAAJ&q=Turner+Harlech+finch+hatton |title=Truth |date=1903 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Spielmann |first=Marion Harry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mozg2vkKCp8C&dq=finch+hatton+thomas+lawrence&pg=PA238 |title=The Magazine of Art |date=1903 |publisher=Petter and Gallpin |language=en}}</ref>
He died suddenly of heart failure at [[London]] on 16 May 1904.<ref name=ADB/><ref name=obit/>
He was buried in [[Ewerby]], [[Lincolnshire]].<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage |first=Gerald le Grys|last= Norgate}}</ref>


He died suddenly of heart failure at his own doorstep at 110 Piccadilly, on 16 May 1904.<ref name="ADB" /><ref name="obit" /> 'After having completed the last of his morning runs round the park.' He was buried in [[Ewerby]] churchyard, [[Lincolnshire]].<ref name="DNB1912">{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage |first=Gerald le Grys|last= Norgate}}</ref>
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He was unmarried.<ref name=dab/> He left estate worth £19,000 to an Elizabeth Inglis Davis, wife of a settler living in Mount Carmel, Victoria and his nephew [[Denys Finch Hatton|Denys Finch-Hatton]]. As the settler's wife had already died, the bulk of the estate went to his brother [[Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea|Henry, 13th Earl of Winchilsea]].<ref name=":0" />

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He was unmarried.<ref name="dab" /> He left an estate worth £19,000 between Elizabeth Inglis Davis, wife of a settler living in Mount Carmel, Victoria and his nephew [[Denys Finch Hatton|Hon. Denys Finch-Hatton]]. As the settler's wife had predeceased him and his nephew was still not of age, the bulk of his estate went to his older brother [[Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea|Henry, 13th Earl of Winchilsea]].<ref name=":0" />


==Legacy==
==Legacy==
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==Publications==
==Publications==
* {{Citation | author1=Finch-Hatton, Harold | title=Advance Australia! : an account of eight years' work, wandering, and amusement, in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria | publication-date=1886 | publisher=W.H. Allen | edition=2nd | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10260152 }} — available [https://archive.org/details/advaustraliaacco00finciala online]
* {{Citation | author1=Finch-Hatton, Harold | title=Advance Australia! : an account of eight years' work, wandering, and amusement, in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria | publication-date=1886 | publisher=W.H. Allen | edition=2nd | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10260152 }} — available [https://archive.org/details/advaustraliaacco00finciala online]

== Ancestry ==
{{ahnentafel|Hon. Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton|2. [[George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea|George William Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea]]|3. Fanny Margareta Rice|4. [[George Finch-Hatton (MP for Rochester)|George Finch-Hatton]]|5. [[Lady Elizabeth Finch-Hatton|Lady Elizabeth Murray]]|6. [[Edward Royd Rice]]|7. Elizabeth Austen Knight|8. [[Edward Finch (diplomat)|Hon. Edward Finch-Hatton]]|9. Anne Palmer|10. [[David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield|David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont, 2nd Earl of Mansfield]]|11. Countess Henrietta Frederica von Bünau|12. Henry Rice|13. Sarah Samson|14. [[Edward Austen Knight]]|15. Elizabeth Bridges|16. [[Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham|Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea]]|17. [[Anne Finch, Countess of Nottingham|Hon. Anne Hatton]]|title=Ancestors of Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton|collapsed=yes|align=center|boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc;|boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9;|boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc;|boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc;|boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe;}}
[[File:Earl of Winchilsea Nottingham COA.svg|thumb|Coat of arms of the Finch-Hatton (combination of the previous Hatton and Finch coat of arms)]]


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 20:53, 17 November 2024

The Honourable
Harold Finch-Hatton
The Hon. Harold Finch Hatton seated
Member of Parliament
for Newark
In office
1895–1898
Personal details
Born23 August 1856
Eastwell Park, Kent, England
Died16 May 1904
London, England
Political partyConservative
Parent(s)George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea
Fanny Royd Rice

The Hon. Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton (23 August 1856 – 16 May 1904)[1] was a British politician and Australian federationist.

Early life

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Finch-Hatton was born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England,[1] the fourth son of George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and his wife Fanny Margaretta, daughter of Edward Royd Rice of Dane Court, Kent and Elizabeth Austen Knight (niece of Jane Austen).[2] He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, and at 19 years of age went to Queensland to visit his brother Henry Finch-Hatton.[1] He took up land in the Mackay district and later worked on the Nebo goldfields. Returning to England in 1883 he published in 1885 an account of his travels Advance Australia! (2nd ed. 1886).[3]

Royal St. David’s Golf Club

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Royal St. David’s Golf Club was founded by keen golfer Finch-Hatton before it was updated and extended by the acclaimed Fred Hawtree. the Prince of Wales was club captain in 1934, before being crowned King Edward VIII and granting the club his royal patronage[4] The gold course that Finch-Hatton laid out with help from William Henry More in 1894 serves as the bones for the course that is played today. The golf course overlooking great dunes to the west, to the north Snowdon Mountain, the tallest peak in both Wales and England and to the east the 13th century Harlech Castle built by Edward I.[5][6]

"Advance Australia!" publication

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Finch-Hatton's written recollections of his eight years around the Mackay area of Queensland is an account of British colonial life in the Antipodes.[7][8] According to The Times in 1904 this book was written in an entertaining way, but his statements about the Aborigines and his views on Australian politicians must be accepted with caution.[9]

Politics

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Finch-Hatton was an unsuccessful candidate for the British House of Commons in 1885, 1886 and 1892, but was returned as a Conservative for Newark in 1895. He resigned in 1898 on account of disagreement with the policy of his party of making concessions made to the Liberal Unionists.[1] He was one of the founders of the Imperial Federation League, and when the North Queensland Separation League was formed he was appointed chairman of the London committee. He also worked for the development of the Pacific route to Australia, and was secretary to the Pacific Telegraph Company for the formation of a line from Vancouver Island to Australia.[1]

Later life

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Harlech Castle, from Twgwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight by J. M. W. Turner, 1799.

When not in London he henceforth lived at Harlech, and in 1903 was high sheriff of Merionethshire. Highly skilled in field sports, a good rifle shot and keen huntsman, he excelled at golf, often competing for the amateur championship. He could also throw the boomerang 'like a black.'[10]

A painting of Harlech bought by Finch-Hatton turned out to be a lost oil painting by J. M. W. Turner, the painting was exhibited in 1903.[11][12]

He died suddenly of heart failure at his own doorstep at 110 Piccadilly, on 16 May 1904.[1][3] 'After having completed the last of his morning runs round the park.' He was buried in Ewerby churchyard, Lincolnshire.[10]

He was unmarried.[9] He left an estate worth £19,000 between Elizabeth Inglis Davis, wife of a settler living in Mount Carmel, Victoria and his nephew Hon. Denys Finch-Hatton. As the settler's wife had predeceased him and his nephew was still not of age, the bulk of his estate went to his older brother Henry, 13th Earl of Winchilsea.[8]

Legacy

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The town of Finch Hatton, Queensland in Australia is believed to be named after him.[13]

Publications

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  • Finch-Hatton, Harold (1886), Advance Australia! : an account of eight years' work, wandering, and amusement, in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria (2nd ed.), W.H. Allen — available online

Ancestry

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Coat of arms of the Finch-Hatton (combination of the previous Hatton and Finch coat of arms)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f D. P. Crook, David Denholm (1972). "Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage (1856–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4. MUP. p. 168. Archived from the original on 28 July 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
  2. ^ "A Watercolour of Jane Austen". The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Family Notices". The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 21 May 1904. p. 36. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Across the drawbridge: castles & golf • Kingdom Magazine". Kingdom Magazine. 20 June 2017. Archived from the original on 23 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Royal St. David's Golf Club Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom". Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  6. ^ "History". Royal St. David’s Golf Club. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  7. ^ Finch-Hatton, Harold (1885). Advance Australia!. Pall Mall: Allen & Co. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  8. ^ a b "The Harold Finch-Hatton Website". www.mackayhistory.org. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  9. ^ a b Serle, Percival (1949). "Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
  10. ^ a b Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1912). "Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  11. ^ Truth. 1903.
  12. ^ Spielmann, Marion Harry (1903). The Magazine of Art. Petter and Gallpin.
  13. ^ "Finch Hatton (entry 12437)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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