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.

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Geological Curator Volume 8 - The Geological Curators' Group" (PDF). www.geocurator.org.
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1874
  6. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1874-75
  7. ↑ "David Grieve F.R.S.E. 1808 - 1889 BillionGraves Record". billiongraves.com.
  8. ↑ "Grave Memorial Records - Find A Grave". www.findagrave.com.


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