Thomas Winfield

Rector of Finmere: instituted 12 November 1811. Buried 20 May 1812. 

Winfield was tutor and friend to Lord George Grenville, who wrote after his death:

I have indeed sustained a heavy loss in the death of poor Winfield, who sunk under the gradual but irresistible advance of consumption about ten weeks ago. […] In poor Winfield I have been deprived of one to whom, although I was not bound by the sacred and eternal hand of nature, I was attached by every feeling of affection and of esteem, as well as of gratitude for that sincere friendship which I know he bore me. He died leaving, I am sorry to say, his affairs in dreadful confusion. I trust however we shall yet, when his immediate debts have been paid, secure something like an independence for his poor little wife. I hear from her constantly and am really surprised at the strength of mind with which she is facing difficulties which at first threatened quite to overwhelm her, and struggling against a grief which has almost broken her heart. (BRO D-FR/51/9/10)