Edmund Findlay
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Sir (John) Edmund (Ritchie) Findlay, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1902 – 6 September 1962) was a Scottish politician and baronet.
The eldest son of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, and Dame Harriet Findlay (DBE), he was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.
He was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Banffshire from 1935-1945.
He married Margaret Jean Graham.
Like his father and grandfather, John Ritchie Findlay, he was proprietor of The Scotsman newspaper.
He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1930 and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Col. Roland Lewis Findlay.
Sources
- Who Was Who
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Edmund Findlay
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Banffshire 1935–1945 |
Succeeded by William Duthie |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by | Baronet (of Aberlour) 1930–1962 |
Succeeded by Roland Lewis Findlay |
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- 1902 births
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- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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- Scottish journalists
- Scottish businesspeople
- Ritchie Findlay family
- UK MPs 1935–45
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