{{Short description|Scottish trade unionist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Findlay in 1921 '''Alan Andrew Hart Findlay''' (1873 – 15 November 1943) was a Scottish trade unionist.
Born in Hurlford in Ayrshire, Findlay worked in the lace industry, as a coal-miner, and as a railway worker, then in an engineering plant and as a railway worker. There, he became involved in the United Patternmakers' Association, and in 1913 was elected as its Assistant General Secretary, followed in 1917 by election as General Secretary.<ref name="chairman">"New chairman of the TUC", ''Manchester Guardian'', 26 September 1935</ref>
Findlay represented the Patternmakers on the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, serving as its treasurer from 1921, then as its president from 1923 to 1925.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Labour Who's Who |date=1927 |publisher=Labour Publishing Company |location=London |pages=67}}</ref> He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921, and served as President of the TUC in 1935/36.<ref name="chairman" />
Findlay retired from his union post in 1940,<ref>"Pattermakers' progress", ''Manchester Guardian'', 18 November 1948</ref> and served as a member of a British industry mission to the United States the following year. He died in 1943, aged 70.<ref>"Mr A. A. H. Findlay", ''The Times'', 17 November 1943</ref>
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{{start box}} {{s-npo|union}} {{succession box|title=Assistant General Secretary of the United Patternmakers' Association|years=1913–1917|before=''New position''|after=John Mills}} {{succession box|title=General Secretary of the United Patternmakers Association|years=1917–1940|before=William Mosses|after=Wilfred Beard}} {{succession box|title=Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour|years=1930|with=Arthur Shaw|before=James Bell and James Thomas Brownlie|after=John Beard and Frank Wolstencroft}} {{succession box|title=President of the Trades Union Congress|years=1935/36|before=William Kean|after=Ernest Bevin}} {{end box}}
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