Harriet Findlay


Dame Harriet Jane Backhouse Findlay, DBE was an English political activist and philanthropist.

Life

She was the daughter of Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Bt. and Florence Trelawny. She married Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet on 9 July 1901.
She was active in Scottish politics becoming a Justice of the Peace in Edinburgh in 1926 and being elected president of the Scottish Unionist Association in 1927. She chaired the management board of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary during the Depression. She died on 24 July 1954, aged 74.

DBE

Lady Harriet Findlay was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1929 and was styled as Dame Harriet Findlay.

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