David Cunningham Greig

David Cunningham Greig FRSE FGS (1922-1999) was a British geologist and cartographer.

His education was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served in Europe and East Africa in the REME.

In May 1962 he returned to Scotland, this time based in Edinburgh as part of the South Lowland Unit then at Grange Terrace, under his old acquaintance, Robert Eden.

His proposers were G Innes Lumsden, James Andrew Robbie, George Hoole Mitchell, and Charles D Waterston.

[2] In 1977 he received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for his work in relocating the HM Survey to Murchison House.

Carboniferous rocks in the south of Scotland. From Greig (1971).