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{{Short description|British peer}}
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| CoA =
| tenure = 21 October 1812 – 3 January 1859
| predecessor = [[Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford]]
| successor = [[Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford]]
| other_titles = 5th Baron Guernsey, Officer in the Light Dragoons
| birth_date = 24 April 1786
| christening_place = St James Church, Westminster, England
| death_date = 3 January 1859
| death_place = [[Great Packington]], England
| burial_place = St James Church, [[Great Packington]], England
| residence = [[Packington Hall]], Great Packington, England
| offices = Member of Parliament for [[Weobley]], Herefordshire
| noble family = Finch
| spouse = Lady Augusta Sophia Greville
| issue = [[Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford]], [[Augusta Legge, Countess of Dartmouth]]
| father = [[Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford]]
| mother = Lady Louisa Thynne
| misc = Fellow, Society of Antiquaries
}}
'''Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford''' (24 April 1786 – 3 January 1859)<ref>''The Register of Births and Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster. 1761-1786''. 21 May 1786.</ref> was a British peer, the eldest son of [[Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford]]. He was styled '''Lord Guernsey''' until he succeeded his father in 1812.
He attended the [[University of Oxford]], graduating in 1807 with a Bachelor of Arts. He held office as Member of Parliament for [[Weobley]] (1807–1812) and was an Officer in the Light Dragoons (1811–1812).
Aylesford married  Augusta Sophia Greville, daughter of [[George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick]] and Henrietta Vernon, on 23 April 1821. Their children were:
# [[Augusta Legge|Augusta Finch]], born in 1822. She married her 2nd cousin William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, and became a philanthropist and Countess of Dartmouth<ref>K. D. Reynolds, 'Legge , Augusta, countess of Dartmouth (1822–1900)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/58519, accessed 12 March 2017]</ref>
# [[Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford]], born in 1824. He married Jane Wightwick Knightley.
# Lieutenant colonel Daniel Greville Finch, born in 1827.
# Sarah Finch.
He was [[High Steward of Sutton Coldfield]] from 1835 until his death and was appointed Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
He died on 3 January 1859.<ref>Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.''. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.</ref>[[File:Earl of Aylesford COA.svg|thumb|Arms of Finch: ''Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant sable.'']]
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