Jean Elmslie Henderson Findlay

Jane (Jean) Elmslie Henderson Findlay (25 Dec 1885-1944). Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a Scottish author, and from 1916 was secretary of the Scottish War Savings Committee during WW1, and later editor of Everyman magazine, published by Hugh Dent from 1929 to 1932. Jane was the daughter of Aberdeen hat merchant George Findlay and Jane Elmslie Henderson. Both her parents were recorded as deceased on 11 January 1886, when her birth was registered. She married widower Andrew Graham Murray 1849-1942 (1st Viscount Dunedin, a Scottish politician, and Judge), in 1923 as his second spouse. They had no children and the title died with their deaths. She has a portrait photo held by the National Portrait Gallery, taken by Lafayette Studios and is listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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