David Ramsey Foster, DSO, DSC (24 May 1920 – 4 June 2010)[1] was a British Royal Navy officer and businessman.
He was a decorated pilot during World War II and president and chairman of Colgate-Palmolive.
Foster was educated first at Stowe School and then at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, where he studied economics and graduated in 1938.
Once World War II had come to an end, Lieutenant-Commander David Foster had served in both the Western Desert and the Pacific theatres, and had received both the DSO and DSC and Bar.
On 1 February 1952 in Manhattan, New York, he married actress and divorcee Glynis Johns.