Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
FRCP FRCGP FMedSci FLSW
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 June 2001
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1949-02-23) 23 February 1949 (age 75)
Political partyCrossbench

Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, FRCP, FRCGP, FLSW, FMedSci (born 23 February 1949) is a Welsh doctor, professor of palliative medicine, and a Crossbench member of the House of Lords.

Born the only daughter of Professor Charles Beaumont Benoy Downman, Finlay grew up in outer London. She attended Wimbledon High School before studying medicine at St Mary's University, Twickenham.[1] In 1972 she married Andrew Yule Finlay, with whom she has two children.[2]

  1. ^ "Notable Alumnae". Wimbledon High School. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Ilora Finlay chats about being a doctor". Wales Online. 27 March 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2024.