Graeme Finlay

Sir Graeme Bell Finlay, 1st Baronet, ERD ((1917-10-29)29 October 1917 – 21 January 1987(1987-01-21) (aged 69)), was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Finlay was son of James Bell Pettigrew Finlay, of Portskewett House, near Chepstow, an engineer, and his wife Margaret Helena, daughter of John Euston Davies.[1] He was educated at Marlborough, and at University College London, then entered Gray's Inn in 1946, becoming a barrister.[2][3]

He was elected at the 1951 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Epping constituency in Essex, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1964 general election by the Labour candidate Stan Newens. On 31 December 1964 he was created a baronet, of Epping in the County of Essex.[4]

Finlay married June Evangeline, daughter of Colonel Francis Collingwood Drake, in 1953. They had three children: a son and heir to the baronetcy, David, and two daughters, Fiona and Catrina.[5]

Coat of arms of Graeme Finlay
Crest
In front of an oak tree fructed a whippet sejant Proper gorged with an ancient coronet pendent therefrom by the chains a portcullis Azure.
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron Azure between in chief two roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper and in base an estoile of eight points Gules within two wings conjoined and erect Azure an ancient coronet Or.
Motto
Be Just [6]

References
  1. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Bell_Pettigrew_Finlay
  2. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, 1980
  3. Burke's Peerage 2003 vol. I, pg 1430
  4. "No. 43538". The London Gazette. 1 January 1965. p. 83.
  5. Burke's Peerage 2003 vol. I, pg 1430
  6. Debrett's Peerage. 2000.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Nigel Davies		 Member of Parliament for Epping
1951–1964		 Succeeded by
Stan Newens
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
New creation		 Baronet
(of Epping)
1964–1987		 Succeeded by
David Ronald James Bell Finlay


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