David Dougall Williams FRSA (June 1888 – 27 September 1944) was a Cheshire-born artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Dundee.

[2] He had one sister Margaret Mary Ann (born October 1891, Liscard), and three brothers, John B.

He grew up in an artistic and literary household: his father John Francon Williams was a writer, geographer, cartographer, and inventor.

By 1901, the family had moved to the South of England and was living at Queens Grove Road in the affluent area of Chingford in Essex.

In October 1922, Williams moved to Dundee to take up the post of assistant art master at Morgan Academy, a position he held until 1929.

[6] In Dundee, Williams lived with his wife and two children (a daughter and a son, Arthur Alexander) at 35 Blackness Avenue.

In 1929, Williams became the principal art master at Logie Central School in Dundee, where he remained teaching for 15 years until his death in 1944.