Finlayson (surname)
Finlayson is a surname of Scottish origin. It is a patronymic form of the name Finlay. People surnamed Finlayson include: * Alan Finlayson, British political and social theorist * Alex Finlayson (born 1951), American playwright * Cathryn Finlayson (born 1988), New Zealand Olympic field hockey player * Charles Finlayson (New Zealand athlete) (1889–1943), New Zealand cricketer and rugby league player * Chris Finlayson (born 1956), Former New Zealand Attorney-General and MP * Colin Finlayson (1903–1955), Canadian Olympic rower * David Finlayson (1954), American classical musician and member of thNew York Philharmonic* George Finlayson (1790–1823), Scottish naturalist and traveller * Gordon Finlayson, British philosopher * Graham Finlayson (1932–1999), British photographer * Hedley Herbert Finlayson (1895–1991), Australian mammalogist * Hugh Finlayson (1810–1889), Ontario businessman and politician * Iain Finlayson (1951–1990), British Olympic Alpine skier * Innes ...
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Finlay
Finlay is a masculine given name, and also a surname. The given name is represented in Scottish Gaelic as Fionnlagh. Given name Finlay *Finlay Mickel, Scottish skier *Finlay Currie (1878–1968), Scottish actor *Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player *Finlay Freundlich (1885–1964), astronomer *Finlay Crisp (1917–1984), Australian academic and political scientist *Finlay Speedie, Scottish footballer *Finlay Jackson (1901–1941), cricketer and rugby union player *Finlay Crerar, Royal Air Force Officer *Finlay McNaughton Young (1852–1916), Canadian Senator *Finlay Macdonald (minister), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland *Finlay MacDonald (musician) (born 1978), Scottish bagpiper *Finlay MacDonald (politician, born 1866) (died 1948), Canadian Member of Parliament for Cape Breton South, Nova Scotia *Finlay MacDonald (politician, born 1923) (died 2002), Canadian senator *Finlay J. MacDonald, Scottish journalist *Starsmith, British songwriter and music produ ...
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Innes Finlayson
Innes "Bunny" Finlayson (4 July 1899 – 29 January 1980) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the national team, the All Blacks, between 1925 and 1930. His position of choice was flanker. Born in Maungaturoto in 1899, Finlayson was educated at Maungaturoto School. He died in Whangarei in 1980, and was buried at Maunu Cemetery. Career He made his first-class debut in North Auckland's first ever match, against South Island Country in 1920 at Kensington Park, Whangarei. He scored the first try in the union's history playing as a wing three-quarter. Finlayson was selected as a loose forward for the 1925 New Zealand tour of Australia, his weight was listed at and height at . Considered an in-form player Finlayson played in all six tour matches. He was later selected for the 1928 tour of South Africa where he played in all four test matches. In total he played 36 matches for the All Blacks with six of them being test matches. Although he scored no points in ...
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Finlay (other)
Finlay is a given name and a family name. Finlay may also refer to: *15P/Finlay, Comet Finlay * Finlay (band), a British indie rock band from London *Dave Finlay, an Irish born professional wrestler. * Finlay & Co., a British manufacturer of upmarket sunglasses. See also * Findlay (other) *Finley (other) * Finlay River The Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W. ...

Finlayson (other)
Finlayson may refer to: People: * Finlayson (surname) Places: * Finlayson (district), Tampere, Finland * Finlayson, Minnesota, United States * Finlayson Township, Pine County, Minnesota, United States * Finlayson Lake Airport in Yukon, Canada In fiction: * Baby Face Finlayson, a fictional character in the UK comic strip ''The Beano'' Other: * Finlayson (company), a Finnish textile company See also *Finlay (other) * Finlayson & Co, cotton mill founded by James Finlayson (industrialist) James Finlayson (29 August 1772? ODNB article by Brian D. J. Denoon, ‘Finlayson, James (1772?–1852?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 24 Dec 2007gives probable date of birth. – 1852?) wa ...

William Finlayson (churchman)
William Finlayson (1813 – 18 December 1897) was a churchman and farmer in the early days of South Australia, and father of nine children including two sons prominent in the early days of that colony. Life Born in Glasgow, he and his wife, née Helen Harvey (born Edinburgh 1811 – 20 October 1884), arrived at Holdfast Bay on the ''John Renwick'' around 7 February 1837, just seven weeks after Governor Hindmarsh. as missionaries with the Baptist Missionary Society of England.The Late Mr. William Finlayson
''South Australian Register'' 18 December 1897 p.7 accessed 24 July 2011 Somehow his missionary ambitions failed to materialise. He found employment with the

William Finlayson (Canadian Politician)
William Finlayson (December 12, 1874 November 14, 1943) was an Ontario lawyer, cabinet minister and political figure. Early life Born in Brantford, Ontario, he was the son of Alexander F. Finlayson and Annie Tupper, and was educated at Jarvis Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario. He set up practice in Midland in 1897 in partnership with William Humphrey Bennett. In 1905, he married Ethel Cora Sinclair. He was President of the Simcoe Railway and Power Company, which constructed the Big Chute hydroelectric plant in 1909. The plant was acquired by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario in 1914, being the first station owned and operated by it. Finlayson served in the Canadian Militia, eventually becoming a captain in the 35th Simcoe Foresters. During World War I, Finlayson enlisted in the 157th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and served in France as a captain in the 10th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. Finlayson ...
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William Finlayson (Australian Politician)
William Fyfe Finlayson (12 August 1867 – 13 January 1955) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1910 to 1919 and a member of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1920 to 1922. Finlayson was born on 12 August 1867 in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire (now in North Lanarkshire), Scotland, the son of Malcolm Finlayson and his wife Christine (née Fergus). He was educated there before becoming an apprentice grocer. Together with his parents and siblings, he immigrated to Brisbane on the ''Duke of Devonshire'' arriving on 13 September 1887. He started a wholesale and retail fruit business in George Street with his brother, left in 1895 after a trip to the United States to set up a branch of the business in Maryborough, before returning to the Brisbane business as junior partner 1903 following a prolonged trip to Scotland. He was active in church work, was Queensland Grand Secretary of the International Organ ...
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Rob Finlayson
Robin A. Finlayson was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on February 1, 2006. Judge Finlayson graduated from the University of Manitoba Law School in 1975. He articled with Manitoba Justice and practiced law as a Crown attorney from 1976 until his appointment to the bench. He held the positions of senior Crown attorney and Director of Prosecutions before being appointed Assistant Deputy Attorney General in 1998. Judge Finlayson has served on a number of federal and provincial committees, including the Uniform Law Conference of Canada and the federal, provincial and territorial Heads of Prosecutions Committee. He was appointed by the Attorney General to co-chair the Child Online Protection Committee to establisCybertip.ca It is now Canada’s national tip line for reporting online child pornography and internet luring incidents to police and it provides related information to the public. Judge Finlayson also chaired a working group of Crown attorneys and chiefs of polic ...
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Roderick David Finlayson
Roderick David Finlayson (26 April 1904 – 2 August 1992) was a New Zealand architectural draughtsman, writer, farm labourer and printing-room assistant. He was born in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... on 26 April 1904. References 1904 births 1992 deaths 20th-century New Zealand architects Writers from Auckland {{NewZealand-writer-stub ...
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John Harvey Finlayson
John Harvey Finlayson (3 February 1843 – 30 March 1915) was the editor and part-owner of the ''South Australian Register''. Employment and social advocacy He joined ''The Register'' in 1861 and became head reporter 1866, a proprietor in 1877 and editor in 1878, succeeding John Howard Clark, resigning in 1899 due to ill-health. He was then appointed resident reporter in Britain until retiring and returning to Adelaide in 1908, dying 7 years later. As an editor he was an outspoken supporter of female suffrage, free secular education, free trade between the Colonies, and Federation. Finlayson was an active Congregational churchman and was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1880. In 1878 Finlayson built a residence "Strelda" in North Adelaide which still stands, at 217-221 Stanley Street. Finlayson Place, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in his honour. Family and education Finlayson was born at "Helenholm", Mitcham, South Australia.
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Jeremy Finlayson
Jeremy Finlayson (born 9 February 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer who plays for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having been initially drafted to . He is now playing for Port Adelaide, and living his best life with his daughter Sophia, and wife Kellie. Personal life Finlayson was born in Culcairn, New South Wales, into a family of Indigenous Australian (Yorta Yorta) descent. He grew up playing an array of sports including cricket, lawn bowls and tennis but mostly focused on Australian rules football. Finlayson attended Billabong High School in Culcairn and played his junior football with the Culcairn Lions in the Hume Football League, making his senior debut for the club in 2012 at the age of 16. In late 2012 he moved to Sydney to join the GWS Giants' academy program full time in order to increase his chances of being drafted into the AFL. The decision paid off at the 2014 AFL draft when the Giants drafted Finlay ...
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James Finlayson (actor)
James Henderson Finlayson (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is known for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the best remembered comic foil of Laurel and Hardy. Finlayson was known by a variety of nicknames. According to Laurel and Hardy scholar Randy Skretvedt, he "called himself Jimmy, was known around the lot as Jim and is usually referred to today as 'Fin'"Skretvedt, p. 77 – as a truncated version of his surname, as author John McCabe presented it in his 1961 book biography ''Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy ''. Early life and stage career Born in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland to Alexander and Isabella (née Henderson) Finlayson, James worked as a tinsmith before pursuing an acting career. As part of John Clyde's company, he played the part of Jamie Ra ...
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