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James Finlayson was born in Glasgow in 1840. He studied his MB at Glasgow in 1867 and also became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh that year. He received his doctor of medicine in 1869, also from Glasgow, and became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow in 1771. During his career he was a physician and lecturer on clinical medicine at the West Infirmary, Glasgow; Consultant Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow and for the Glasgow Hospital for Diseases of the Ear; Medical Adv[ocate] at the Scotland Amicable Life Assurance Society; President and Honorary librarian of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; President of the Glasgow Pathological and Clinical Society; member of the Royal Philosophical Society, Glasgow; and House Surgeon to the Clinical Hospital and Dispensary for Children, Manchester. He died in 1906.