Sir John Finet

(1570 c.-1641)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Finet, John, Sir, 1571-1641 NRA: Finet Sir John (1571-1641) knight Master of the Ceremonies DNB: Finet [Finett], Sir John (1570/71–1641), courtier and writer LBT ID: JoFinet1641 VIAF ID: 44339084 LOC ID: n87869424	B/BAP: 1570 DIED: 1641-07-12
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Secretary to the earl of Salisbury, he was a wit and court favorite whose manuscripts were posthumously published by James Howell as Finetti philoxenis (1656).
REFERENCES TO Sir John Finet: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 20 December 1822 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVII. 1822-1823