Robert Findlay

Robert Findlay FRSE (1721-1814), was a Scottish minister. In 1783 he was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh along with many other leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Life Findlay was born in March 1721 the son of William Findlay, a merchant in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. He was born 23 November 1721, was educated at Glasgow, Leyden, and Edinburgh, and was ordained a minister of the kirk of Scotland in 1744. He had charges successively at Stevenston (1743), Galston (1745), Paisley (1754), and St. David's Church, Glasgow (1756). He was given a Doctor of Divinity (DD) late in life (1776) by Glasgow University, and was appointed Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow in 1782, remaining in this role until death. He died on 15 June 1814. He is buried in Ramshorn Cemetery on Ingram Street in Glasgow.