David Grieve

David Grieve FRSE PRPSE FSA FGS FEGS (1808-1889) was a Scottish lawyer and amateur geologist. He served as President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh from 1874 to 1877.[1]

Life
The Grieve family grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh

He was born in Leith on 9 February 1808, probably the son of Agnes Symington (d.1846) and Robert Grieve (1776-1855), a ship-chandler on The Shore. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh.

He spent much of his working life in his role as a Collector for HM Customs. This was first based at Banff in Scotland before being relocated to the south coast of England, being based at both Grimsby and Dover.[2]

He was a member of a local geological society in Banff and presented it with a rare sample of graptolite in 1853. Here he was both a colleague and friend of Charles William Peach, father to Ben Peach.[3]

In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being James McBain.[4] He is known to have made several studies in the quarry within Arthur’s Seat south-east of the city.[5]

At the time of his Presidency of the RPSE he was living at 2 Keir Street, off Lauriston Place.[6]

He died in Edinburgh on 25 June 1889. He is buried in the Grange Cemetery.[7][8] He is also memorialised on his parents' grave in the western section of Greyfriars Kirkyard.

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References
  1. "Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh". Scholarly Societies Project. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. http://www.geocurator.org/arch/curator/vol8no2.pdf
  4. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1874
  6. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1874-75
  7. https://billiongraves.com/grave/David-Grieve/30911588
  8. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Grieve&GSiman=1&GSob=c&GSsr=41&df=90&


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