Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet

Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, KBE, DL, FRSE (13 January 1866 – 13 April 1930) was a Scottish businessmen and philanthropist who owned the newspaper The Scotsman.

From Harrow he passed to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated MA with double honours, in Natural Science and in Literae Humaniores.

Sir John Findlay was an enlightened and progressive newspaper proprietor with a high ideal of the moral responsibility of the Press to the public.

He never entered the competitive arena of local or national politics, but his services were much sought after on semi-public administrative boards and public committees, and he gave of himself in that work.

His antiquarian interests found an outlet in his position as Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Ancient Monuments Board, and he was also an original member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland.

Lady Findlay ably supported her husband in his public work and was herself Chairman of the Scottish Unionist Association two years ago, the first woman to hold that office.

Sir John was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1917[4][5] and created a Baronet, of Aberlour in the County of Banff, in 1925.