David White Finlay Finlay was born on 1 September 1840 to James Finlay (died 13/5/1849) and Isabella White. He had 4 brothers, John (1830-1854), Alexander (1833-1895), James (1836-1910) and William Neilson (1842-1903). John died aged 23 in Malta when on a trip to the Holy Land. Alexander was a Seascape Painter. James was a GP in Helensburgh when A J Cronin (writer of Dr. Finlay's Casbook) was in his youth in Helensburgh. In Aug 1878 in Marylebone, London David married Catherine Mary Thompson, daughter of the shipowner, Stephen Thompson. They had four sons and four daughters viz. Ronald Stephen (1879-1884), Brenda Mary (1880-1952),
William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay by "The Times" as "like his father...a scholar, with a vein of old-world culture". As reader of the Middle Temple in 1933 he delivered a noted reading on "Law and Literature". In 1903, Finlay married Beatrice Marion Hall (1880–1942), daughter of Edward Kirkpatrick Hall. They had one daughter, the Hon Rosalind Mary Finlay (1914–2002), who married Vice-Admiral Sir John Hayes in 1939. William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay, (15 October 1875 – 30 June 1945) was a British judge and peer who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1938 to 1945. The son of