David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, GCMG (31 May 1833 – 13 December 1915), was a British naval commander and colonial governor.

His mother was Mary Frances Elphinstone-Dalrymple, daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 1st Baronet.

[citation needed] Boyle served with the Royal Navy during the Crimean and Second Opium Wars.

[3] Upon his return to the UK, Lord Glasgow was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1897 as Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr, to enable him to sit in the House of Lords (the Earldom of Glasgow and all its subsidiary titles being in the Peerage of Scotland).

He received the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow when they celebrated the 450th jubilee in June 1901.