He was educated at Harrow, where he was a contemporary of Stanley Baldwin and of John Galsworthy.
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On the outbreak of World War I he was invited by the Government to become Chairman of the Scottish National Housing Company, which was entrusted with the construction of housing at Rosyth, then the new naval base.
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Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet KBE (13 January 1866 – 13 April 1930), a Scotsman, was the owner of the business that published The Scotsman, a philanthropist, and later in life Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire.
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It was created on 25 June 1925 for the newspaper proprietor and philanthropist Sir John Ritchie Findlay.