David White Finlay (1 September 1840 – 4 November 1923) was a Scottish physician and yachtsman.
After some years of foreign travel and further studies (including Vienna) he settled in London in 1873.
In 1912 he retired to Helensburgh but came out of retirement in 1914 to assist during the First World War serving at the Scottish National Red Cross Hospital in Bellahouston at the rank of Lt Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Ronald Stephen (1879-1884), Brenda Mary (1880-1952), Kenneth George ( 1882-1974), James (1884-1884), Oliver (1884-1950), Ruth Averill (1885-1937), Lesley (1886-1923) and Marjorie Niven (1889-1980).
David is buried in Helensburgh Cemetery with his wife and six of his eight children (excepting Ruth and Marjorie).
Ayrshire, Finnart, Garelochside, Glenfinlas, Hamilton, Helensburgh, Land of our Birth, Praise to God and West Burn.