FINLAY, GEORGE (1799-1875), British historian, was born of Scottish parents at Faversham, Kent, on Dec. 21, 1799. He studied for the law in Glasgow, and about 1821 went to Gottingen. In 1823 he went to Greece, being interested in the struggle for Greek independence, and spent 14 months studying the country. At Missolonghi he met Byron, and for two months spent nearly every evening discussing Greek affairs with him. After a short visit to Scotland he returned to Greece, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1827 he took part in the unsuccess ful operations of Lord Cochrane and Sir Richard Church for the relief of Athens. When independence was secured in 1829 he bought an estate in Attica, and tried, without much success, to introduce better methods of agriculture in Greece. He then turned to the systematic study of Greek history with which he occupied himself until his death in Athens on Jan. 26, The first part of his great work appeared in 1844, under the title of Greece under the Romans, and was followed by History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 716-1453 (2 vols., 1854) ; History of Greece under the Ottoman and Venetian Dom ination (1856) and History of the Greek Revolution (2 vols., 1860. From 1864 to 1870 he was correspondent of The Times. BIBLIOGRAPHY.-H. F. Tozer's edition of his History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the present time, B.C. 546—A.D. 1864 (Oxford, 7 vols. 1877), which includes the books mentioned above, contains also a fragmentary autobiography. Finlay's Greece under the Romans and History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 to have been published in the Everyman Edition (1906).