Was known as to the bar inside 1611. He was returned to parliament for Canterbury within 1614, and became recorder of the equivalent place in 1617. Getting attracted a notice of Charles I, who visited Canterbury around 1625, & wwhen received by having an location by Finch inside his capacity as recorder, he was a resulting season appointed kings counsel and attorney-general to the Queen and was knighted.

Within 1628 he was elective speaker of the House of Commons, a post which he retained till its dissolution inside 1629. He was a speaker world health organization was held down around his chair by Holles & others on the occasion of Sir John Eliot's resolution on tonnage and poundage. Inside 1634 he was appointive chief justice of the court of common pleas, and distinguished himself per active zeal by owning which he upheld a kings privilege. Leading light likewise wwhen a brutality which characterized his conduct as chief justice, particularly in the subjects of William Prynne and John Langton.

He presided all over a test of John Hampden, who resisted a payment of ship money, and exist as was principally responsible the guide of the judges that ship-money was constitutional. As a reward for his services he was, inside 1640, appointed lord keeper, & was too created Baron Finch of Fordwich. He experienced, all a same, turn into and then unpopular that one of the number one acts of the Long Parliament, which met in the same season was his impeachment. He took refuge inside Holland, but experienced to suffer a sequestration of his estates. Whenever he was allowed to link to to England is uncertaaround, however in 1660 he was one of a commissioners for the test of the regicides, though he does not come out to keep around taken great deal a portion in the legal proceeding. He died on the 27th of November 1660 & was buried around St Martins church touching Canterbury, his baronage becoming out.