{{Short description|Scottish Liberal Party politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Alexander Struthers Finlay''' (20 July 1807<ref>'Old Parish Registers Births and baptisms', https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/</ref> – 9 June 1886) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for Argyllshire 1857–68.<ref>{{Rayment-hc|a|2|date=March 2012}}</ref><ref name="handbook">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AecNAAAAQAAJ&q=struthers|title=The Handbook of the Court; the Peerage; and the House of Commons|page=149|year=1862|accessdate=2010-08-20}}</ref>
He was a deputy lieutenant for Argyllshire and Buteshire and a magistrate. He was the son of Kirkman Finlay, MP for Glasgow.<ref name="handbook"/>
His son, Alexander Kirkman Finlay, married Nora Robinson, the daughter of Sir Hercules Robinson, then Governor of New South Wales, in one of the most celebrated weddings of colonial Australia.
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