Sir (John) Edmund (Ritchie) Findlay, 2nd Baronet

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(14 June 1902 – 6 September 1962) was a

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politician and

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. He was

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(MP) for

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from 1935 to 1945.

Life

He was the eldest son of

Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, (13 January 1866 – 13 April 1930), a Scotsman, was the owner of the business that published ''The Scotsman'', a philanthropist, and later in life Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire. Family and education Joh ...

, and Dame

Harriet Findlay Dame Harriet Jane Findlay, Lady Findlay, DBE ( Backhouse; 12 March 1880 – 24 July 1954) was a British political activist and philanthropist. Life Harriet Jane Backhouse was the daughter of Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Bt. (15 November 18 ...

( DBE) (born Harriet Jane Backhouse). He was educated at

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and then attended university at

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, graduating BA. He married Margaret Jean Graham. Like his father and grandfather,

John Ritchie Findlay John Ritchie Findlay (21 October 1824 – 16 October 1898) was a Scottish newspaper owner and philanthropist. Life John Ritchie Findlay was born at Arbroath, Angus, son of Peter Findlay and was educated at Edinburgh University. In 1842, follo ...

, he was proprietor of ''

The Scotsman ''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...

'' newspaper. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1930 and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Col. Roland Lewis Findlay. In 1932, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were James Watt, Robert Grant, Sir

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer FRS FRSE FRCP LLD (2 June 1850 – 29 March 1935) was an English physiologist. He is regarded as a founder of endocrinology: in 1894 he discovered and demonstrated the existence of adrenaline together with G ...

and

James Hartley Ashworth James Hartley Ashworth FRS FRSE DSc SZS (2 May 1874 – 4 February 1936) was a British marine zoologist. Life See He was born on 2, May 1874, in Accrington in Lancashire, the only son of James Ashworth. He spent most of his early life in Bu ...

. He was Unionist

(MP) for

from 1935 to 1945. In 1953, he sold ''The Scotsman'' newspaper to

Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, (5 June 1894 – 4 August 1976) was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London. He first came to prominence when he was selling radios in ...

, ending the long connection between the Findlay family and the newspaper. He died on 6 September 1962 in

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in the

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. He is buried on the island in St Marks Church cemetery.

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* 1902 births 1962 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Findlay, Sir John Edmund Ritchie Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Scottish journalists 20th-century Scottish businesspeople

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