Personal life
In 1875, Murray Finch-Hatton married Edith Harcourt, daughter of Edward William Harcourt and Lady Susan Harriet Holroyd, daughter of 2nd Earl of Sheffield and Lady Harriet Lascelles of Harewood house. Edith's uncle was Sir William Harcourt, while her aunt Cecilia Harcourt had married her husband's uncle Sir Edward Rice.
Together they had two children:
George Edward Henry Murray Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone, (1883-1892), died at the age of nine.
Lady Muriel Finch-Hatton (1876-1938), who married Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, 2nd Baronet (1869-1955) and left issue, including their grandsons Alexander Chancellor, the father of model Cecilia Chancellor, and John Paget Chancellor, who married the Hon. Mary Alice Jolliffe (daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton), the parents of actress Anna Chancellor.
Finch-Hatton's country residence was at Haverholme Priory, Lincolnshire, a roomy home with turrets and battlements, inherited from his father through his uncle in law, Sir Jenison Gordon, 2nd Baronet who had married his aunt Lady Gordon. The staircase was graced by the Finches' griffin ornaments which made for imposing finials, the walls were lined by Gobelins tapestry and armour from Kirby Hall, and allegorical pictures made by his great-aunt Lady Gordon, who was a pupil of Gainsborough. In the rarely used dining room hanged actual Gainsborough paintings of the family.
He died in September 1898, aged 47. Murray was succeeded by his younger brother who became Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea. His estate was proved at £106,403 (equivalent to modern day £14 million)
