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{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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[[File:1stViscountFinlay.jpg|thumb|301x301px|Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay]]
'''Viscount Finlay''', of [[Nairn]] in the [[County of Nairn]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31271 |date=4 April 1919 |page=4414}}</ref> was a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created on 27 March 1919 for the lawyer and politician [[Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay|Robert Finlay, 1st Baron Finlay]]. He had already been created '''Baron Finlay''', of Nairn in the County of Nairn,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29870 |date=19 December 1916 |page=12339}}</ref> on his appointment as [[Lord Chancellor]] in 1916. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Viscount, who was a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]]. Both titles became extinct on his death in 1945.

==Viscounts Finlay (1919)==
*[[Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay|Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay]] (1842–1929)
*[[William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay]] (1875–1945)

[[File:Finlay Escutcheon.png|thumb|left|Finlay's arms displayed in the House of Lords<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/baz_manning/12453559794/in/album-72157640816935903/ |title= Lord Chancellors, printed paper office corridor (1) |date= 11 April 2011 |publisher=Baz Manning |access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref>]]

==References==
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===Sources===
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/373 | location=[[London]] |publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|page=373}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

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