Dr Thomas Matthew Finlay FRSE EGS (17 September 1879 – 31 January 1954) was a Scottish geologist and palaeontologist.
[1] He was born at Sotrigarth in Sandwick, Shetland on 17 September 1879, the son of Frederick Souis Finlay (1852–1918) and his wife Mary Bruce Smith (1857–1937).
[4] In the First World War he served as an officer in the Scottish Horse, being promoted from lance corporal to second lieutenant in 1915,[5] he was wounded in action in October 1918 at Ledeghem and when discharged he was a captain.
His proposers were Thomas James Jehu, Robert Campbell, John Horne and Murray Macgregor.
[4] In 1954 he co-wrote the guidebook The complete Scotland : a comprehensive survey, based on the principal motor, walking, railway, and steamer routes with the historian J.D.