The Findlay Baronetcy, of Aberlour in the County of Banff, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 June 1925 for the newspaper proprietor and philanthropist Sir John Ritchie Findlay

Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet

Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet KBE , a Scotsman, was the owner of the business that published The Scotsman, a philanthropist, and later in life Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire.-Family and education:...

. He was the eldest son of John Ritchie Findlay

John Ritchie Findlay

John Ritchie Findlay was a Scottish newspaper owner and philanthropist.He was born at Arbroath, Angus, son of Peter Findlay and was educated at Edinburgh University...

. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baronet. He sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Banffshire

Banffshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Banffshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1983...

. On his death the title passed to his younger brother, the third Baronet. The title became extinct on the latter's death in 1979.

James Leslie Findlay

James Leslie Findlay

James Leslie Findlay was a Scottish architect and soldier.James Leslie Findlay was the younger son of John Ritchie Findlay and Susan Leslie. He practiced as an architect in Edinburgh between 1885-1915. Initially apprenticed to A G Sydney Mitchell, he went into partnership with James Bow Dunn in 1894...

, younger brother of the first Baronet, was an architect.

Findlay Baronets, of Aberlour (1925)

• Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet KBE , a Scotsman, was the owner of the business that published The Scotsman, a philanthropist, and later in life Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire.-Family and education:...
  
   (1866-1930)
• Sir (John) Edmund Ritchie Findlay, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Edmund Findlay, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Edmund Findlay, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish politician and baronet.The eldest son of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, and Dame Harriet Findlay , he was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.He was Unionist Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1935-1945.Like his father...
  
  (1902-1962)
• Sir Roland Lewis Findlay, 3rd Baronet (1903-1979)