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),
Thomas Matthew Finlay Edinburgh on 31 January 1954. He married Flora Rowan (1879-1949) in Cowdenbeath in 1914. They had three children: Frederick Henry Rowan Finlay (1915-1973); Margaret Haddow Finlay (1917-1958); and Robert Finlay (1923-1979). Thomas Matthew Finlay Dr Thomas Matthew Finlay FRSE EGS (17 September 1879-31 January 1954) was a Scottish geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at Sotrigarth in Sandwick, Shetland on 17 September 1879, the son of Frederick Souis Finlay (1852-1918) and his wife Mary Bruce Smith (1857-1937). From 1891 he lived with his maternal grandfather, Robert Smith, still in Sandwick. He was sent to Edinburgh in 1900/1901 and lodged in