FINLAY, ROBERT BANNATYNE FINLAY, 1ST VISCOUNT (1842-1929), British lawyer and politician, was born at Edinburgh July i 1, 1842. He was educated at Edinburgh academy and university, and graduated in medicine. In 1867 he was called to the bar, in 1882 becoming a Q.C. and a bencher of the Middle Temple. From 1885 to 1892 he sat as a Conservative for Inverness Burghs, and in 1895 regained the seat and was made Solicitor-General in Lord Salisbury's Govt., when he was knighted. In i9oo he became Attorney-General, remaining in the Govt. until the Conservative defeat of 1906, and from 1902 to 1903 was lord rector of Edinburgh university. In 1910 he was elected M.P. for Edinburgh and St. Andrews universities, and in 1916, on the formation of Mr. Lloyd George's Govt., became Lord Chancellor and received a barony. He retired in 1918, and in 1919 was created a viscount. In 1920 he was appointed British member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1921 became a member of the Permanent Court of Inter national Justice. He died March 8, 1929.