Andrew James Fincham
Potteries, England, 1964
 Andrew
Fincham was born in 1964 in the Potteries district of England
to a family of musicians, teachers and priests. He was educated
at Newcastle-under-Lyme School where he won numerous prizes
for poetry and drama before being awarded a place to read
Law at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1984. His
time at Oxford was relatively untroubled by study, and a preference
for contemplation enabled him to be twice elected as college
President of the Arts. Much of his earliest poetry was composed
at this time.
Graduating in 1987 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics,
Andrew was recruited from University to work with the world’s
largest consultancy firm from whence, entirely un-spoilt by
literary success, he continued to work in international finance
strategy for 16 years, writing two (unpublished) literary
novels, one definitive Guide to Business Strategy and a host
of articles.
In 1995, an opportunity to work in Poland encouraged him
to investigate the historical origins of his birth religion
- the English Unitarians - much of whose thinking had been
influenced by the late c.16th Polish Arians. A chance encounter
with a copy of the first English biography of Michal Servetus
in a private library cemented his interest, and provided motivation
for a wider understanding of the true importance of the Servetian
story.
His creative efforts in Poland were recognized in April 2004
with the award from UNESCO for ‘Foreign Contribution to Polish
literary life”. His latest verse, ‘Srodek ciezkosci’ (‘Centre
of Gravity’), published by IbiS the same year, received a
warm reception.
Andrew Fincham is twice married, with three children, and
works as a writer and commentator on Polish affairs. He lives
six miles from Shakespeare’s birthplace in England, and in
the Horseshoe Wood (Podkowa Lesna) close to Warsaw, Poland.
e-mail: a.fincham@servetus.org
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