Major David Francis Oliphant Russell CBE MC FRSE (1915 – 1993) was a British businessman and philanthropist.
He was born at Rothes House (near Glenrothes) on 9 September 1915, the son of Sir David Russell and his wife, Alison Blyth.
[1] In the Second World War he was commissioned as an officer in the 7th battalion Black Watch and was severely wounded at the Battle of El Alamein.
In 1969 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to business, to university and to the National Trust.
His proposers were Thomas Malcolm Knox, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, Robert Allan Smith and Anthony Elliot Ritchie.