AC
never knew her father, Sir Heneage Finch
, who had been Speaker of the House of Commons.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.
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He was a cousin (not a close one) of the poet Anne Finch
's husband.
Birth
Anne Conway
The future philosopher AC
was born as Anne Finch at Kensington House in London, the youngest in her family, just a week after her father
suddenly died.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Clarendon Press.