The John Bargrave Collection

Younger brother to Sir Heneage Finch (afterwards Earl of Nottingham). He studied physic early, travelled into Italy, and became doctor of his faculty at Padua: of which university be was afterwards chosen syndic. He was made English consul at Padua, and his statue in marble was set up there, "in contemplation and memory of bis excellent government." The great duke made him the public professor at Pisa. On the restoration of Charles II. he revisited his native country, and was presented by Lord Clarendon to the king, who knighted him, June 10, 1661. In 1665 he was sent resident for Charles II. with the great duke of Tuscany. He subsequently became ambassador at Constantinople for some years. He died 18th Nov. 1682. (1. 91)