Dame Harriet Jane Backhouse Findlay, DBE (12 March 1880 – 24 July 1954) 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

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:...

 (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...

 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
  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:...
  
   (b. 13 January 1866 - d. 13 April 1930)

• Children:
• Elizabeth Findlay (b. 19?? - d. 1958)
• 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)