Robert Finnie

Born in Hull in January 1828, Finnie was a student in the Military Department at King’s from 1848 to 1850. He married Mary Ann Finnie (nee Sykes) and they had three children: George Sykes Finnie (born in 1856), Annie Beatrice Finnie (born in 1862), and Mary Louisa Finnie (born in 1861). Mary died in October 1877 from ‘phthisis pulmonalis’ (pulmonary tuberculosis) and asthenia. George died a year later, in 1878, from chronic pleurisy. After leaving King’s, Robert Finnie did not serve in the military but worked as a bookkeeper. After relocating to New York, he then worked as a clerk in a store. He died in May 1915 aged 88 and was buried in Brooklyn, New York.