R. A. Finlayson was Professor of Systematic Theology at the Free Church of Scotland College from 1946-66. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology he was a founding member of the Scottish Tyndale Fellowship, which later became the Scottish Evangelical Theological Society He was also active in the beginnings of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship He was much in demand as a preacher and conference speaker, with a wit as sharp as his pen