Francis Finlaison was born on 1 January 1906 and educated at Charterhouse, Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualification in 1930 he held several resident posts at St Thomas's Hospital and then became chief assistant to the obstetrical department at the same hospital. Finlaison then decided to specialise in gynaecology and took his membership of the College of Gynaecologists in 1936. During the second world war he was in charge of St Thomas's obstetrical unit at Ashwood, near Woking and also worked in the emergency medical service at Botley's Park War Hospital and at the old Windsor EMS Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed consultant to King Edward VII Hospital at Windsor and he also worked at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital at Taplow which was in the Windsor group. In 1951 he was elected FRCOG. Finlaison came to Windsor when there were shortages in men and materials and he played a great part in building up an obstetrical service in Windsor and the surrounding district. He remained active in all his hospital appointments until his untimely death. Apart from his professional activities his chief interests lay in his family and his home although in earlier years his hobbies were chiefly golf and snooker. In later years his chief pleasures lay in entertaining friends in his house and a friendly game of bridge. In 1928 he married Audrey Warren and they had a son and a daughter. Finlaison died suddenly in his sleep on 10 February 1968 at the age of 62.