Campbell Kirkman Finlay (1875 - 1937)

Born 27 Oct 1875 in India

Husband of Alice Kathleen (Norton) Finlay — married 14 Mar 1901 in Bengal, India

Descendants

Died 1937 at about age 61 in Warfield, Berkshire, England

Biography

Campbell Finlay is Notable.

Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay was born about 1876.

owner of Burmah Oil

In the late 1890s, the Burmah Oil Company Ltd (founded in 1886 as the Rangoon Oil Company by David Sime Cargill to develop oil fields in the Indian subcontinent) passed into the ownership of Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay, whose family already possessed vast colonial interests through their trading vehicle, James Finlay and Co.^[1] In the first decade of the 20th century, Burmah Oil became an early and major shareholder in Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) – later Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, then British Petroleum and eventually BP.

He married Alice Norton in 1901.^[2]
They had two children:

• Campbell Kirkman Finlay (1909-)
• Violet Vivian Finlay (1914-86), known better under her pen-name of William Stuart Long.

Finlay received a knighthood in recognition of his immense contribution to industry.

He passed away, aged 61 years, in 1937, at Windsor, Berkshire, England.^{[3] [4]}

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Burmah Oil; accessed 10 Mar 2019
2. ↑ "India Marriages, 1792-1948 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGJP-3J9 : 5 February 2020), Campbell Kirkman Finlay, 1901.
3. ↑ UK FreeBMD Death Index Jun qtr 1937, vol 2c, page 465
4. ↑ "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLF-9FZJ : 17 September 2018), Campbell Kirkman Finlay, 11 Jun 1937; citing Probate, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Great Britain.; FHL microfilm .

• "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QDDQ-Q2M : 22 February 2021), Campbell B Finlay in household of Kirkman Finlay, Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Middlesex county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WB-MWNK : 22 July 2020), Campbell Kirkman Finlay, 1932; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.FAG death date is incorrectly transcribed as 1932. The image of the gravestone clearly shows 1937.