Ian Finlay (art historian)

William Ian Robertson Finlay, CBE,[1] FRSA (1906–1995) was a Scottish art historian, museum director and writer.[2][3][4]

Biography

Born in Auckland, New Zealand on 2 December 1906, Finlay grew up in Scotland and attended the Edinburgh Academy.[2] He later studied at Edinburgh University and started working for the Royal Scottish Museum in 1932 where he worked for 39 years, eventually directing the museum from 1961 to 1971.[2] In addition, Finlay was the secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland from 1953 to 1961. After leaving the Royal Scottish Museum in 1971, he joined the Royal Scottish Academy where he was a Professor of Antiquities until his passing in 1995.[2]

Finlay regularly appeared on BBC radio programmes.[5]

Finlay married Mary Pringle in 1933 and the couple had three children. Finlay died on 10 December 1995.[2]

Selected works

See Ian Finlay's WorldCat page.

References

  1. ^ "CENTRAl CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD". The London Gazette: 5480. 12 June 1965.
  2. ^ a b c d e "OBITUARY : Ian Finlay". The Independent. 21 December 1995. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Ian Finlay". HeraldScotland. 22 December 1995. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Finlay, (William) Ian Robertson (1906–1995), museum director and art historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60346. Retrieved 7 February 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "BBC Genome search results for Ian Finlay". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 7 February 2018.


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