Harriet Findlay

Dame Harriet Jane Backhouse Findlay, DBE (12 March 1880 – 24 July 1954) was an English political activist and philanthropist.

She was the daughter of Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Bt. (15 November 1849 – 27 July 1918) and Florence Trelawny (died 11 October 1902). She married Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (son of John Ritchie Findlay and Susan Leslie) on 9 July 1901.

She died on 24 July 1954, aged 74.

DBE

Lady Harriet Findlay was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1929 and was styled as Dame Harriet Findlay.

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