No­vem­ber 18, 1786, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Ap­ril 30, 1855, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Mar­y­le­bone Cem­e­te­ry, Finch­ley Road, Lon­don, Eng­land.

One of the orig­in­al mem­bers of the Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty (found­ed in 1813), Finch­ley is known as a con­cert pi­an­ist, and for com­pos­ing oper­a­tic piec­es and op­er­et­tas. He re­ceived a BMus de­gree from Ox­ford in 1839, and in No­vem­ber 1841 was elect­ed to a mu­sic­al pro­fess­or­ship in Edin­burgh, Scot­land. He was knight­ed in 1842, and in 1848 took over the mu­sic­al chair at Ox­ford. He re­ceived a doc­tor­ate of mu­sic from Ox­ford in 1853.

• Colles, Volume I, pp. 382-3

1. ’Mid Scenes of Con­fu­sion
2. Spanish Chant