Sir Edmund Findlay, 2nd Baronet
- Sir Edmund Findlay, 2nd Baronet
Sir (John) Edmund (Ritchie) Findlay, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1902 – 6 September 1962) was a Scottish politician and baronet. The eldest son of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, and Dame Harriet Findlay (DBE), he was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.
He was Unionist Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1935-1945.
Like his father and grandfather, John Ritchie Findlay, he was proprietor of "The Scotsman" newspaper.
He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1930 and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Col. Roland Lewis Findlay.
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