David "Dave" Glover is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale, played by Ian Kelsey.

When Kelsey opted to leave the show, producers chose to kill his character off and Dave made his last appearance on 26 December 1996.

In August 1994, a columnist for Inside Soap said Kelsey was expected to get pulses racing in Emmerdale when he made his debut appearance as Dave Glover, a member of a "roving gypsy clan".

[1] They called him "yet another teen heart throb" and said his "rough and ready looks" would put Noah Huntley's character Luke McAllister in the shade.

Emmerdale were portraying Kathy as being uninterested in relationships at the time of Dave's declaration; which results in her rejecting his advances.

While she believed that her character was not ready for romance; Burrows said that Dave had the potential to be Kathy's love interest because he was "very similar" to her first husband, Jackie Merrick (Ian Sharrock).

When she imposes a sex ban until they marry, Dave resumes an old affair with Kim Tate (Claire King).

Eventually Kim decides that she wants a larger share in Frank's estate and plans to achieve this by having his baby.

[5] Off-screen King was married to fellow Emmerdale cast member Peter Amory (who plays Chris Tate), who would often tease her for Kim's romance with Dave.

Kelsey felt that this made his work load heavier and was required to attend various photo shoots to promote the affair.

King told Helen Childs from Inside Soap that Kim loves Dave, but she sees but the offer of money is too tempting.

The location filming took place at Creskeld Hall, the actual setting of Home Farm and this was manned by Barbara Shaw.

They built and extra storey to the building and installed fire bars which were manipulated to set the room alight.

[8] Kelsey told the Daily Record's Paul English, that he was unsure if he would "shake off Dave Glover" because "millions of people" watched his exit.

[9] Dave arrives in the village with his parents and younger siblings; Roy (Nicky Evans) and Linda (Tonicha Jeronimo).

They suddenly notice a fire has broken out in the nursery and Dave runs in to save James, who he manages to pass out through a window.