Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
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Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, 7th Earl of Winchilsea PC was an English Tory politician and peer who supported the Hanoverian Succession in 1714.
Portrait by Jonathan Richardson
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1720
Burley on the Hill Manor viewed from Stamford Road.
Lady Essex Rich, portrait by studio of Peter Lely
Hanoverian Tory
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Hanoverian Tories were Tory supporters of the Hanoverian Succession of 1714. At the time many Tories favoured the exiled Jacobite James Francis Edward Stuart to take the British and Irish thrones, while their arch rivals the Whigs supported the candidacy of George, Elector of Hanover.
The Earl of Nottingham was one of the most prominent pro-Hanoverian Tories in 1714.
George I appointed several Hanoverian Tories in his first government, but they were soon pushed out as the Whig Ascendancy began.