The Reverend Canon Dr Hueston Finlay was educated at Wesley College and Trinity College, Dublin. He holds undergraduate degrees in Engineering and Theology and has undertaken a doctorate on Schleiermacher at King's College London. Following ordination he worked in the cathedral parish of St Canice in the County of Kilkenny, where he acted as Bishop's Vicar, Diocesan Librarian and Diocesan Registrar. While there he taught theology at the country's largest boarding school and lectured on ethics and doctrine for the diocesan adult education programme. He moved to Cambridge when appointed as Curate to the University Church and Chaplain to Girton College. From there he went to Magdalene College where he served as Dean of Chapel, Director of Studies in Theology, Tutor and Fellow. He has also held an Affiliated Lectureship at the University of Cambridge, where he taught doctrine. In 2004 he was appointed a Canon of St George's Chapel. In 2008 he relinquished the duties of Canon Steward and on the post of Warden of St George's House. From 2011 he has also had the honour of being the Canon Treasurer of St Patrick's, the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland.