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.

Family

• Husband:
• Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (b. 13 January 1866 – d. 13 April 1930)

• Children:
• Elizabeth Findlay (died 1958)
• Laetitia Florence Findlay (died 5 July 1978)
• Sir John Edmund Ritchie Findlay, 2nd Baronet (b. 14 June 1902 – d. 6 September 1962)
• Lt.- Col. Sir Roland Lewis Findlay, 3rd Baronet (b. 14 July 1903 – d. 28 July 1979)

External links

• Peerage

References

• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 208.