Sir Harold Montague "Monty" Finniston FRS[1] FRSE (15 August 1912 – 2 February 1991) was a Scottish industrialist.
[2] Monty Finniston read metallurgical chemistry at the University of Glasgow, where he gained his PhD and then lectured in metallurgy.
[2] After the war he worked in Canada, and then was appointed Chief Metallurgist at the Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell.
In 1958 he moved to north-east England to become Director of the Nuclear Research Centre newly founded by the Newcastle engineering firm C. A. Parsons.
In 1979 the committee delivered the Finniston Report, which addressed the concerns that engineering was of relatively low status in the UK.