David Grieve

David Grieve FRSE PRPSE FSA FGS FEGS (1808-1889) was a Scottish lawyer and amateur geologist.

[1] He was born in Leith on 9 February 1808, probably the son of Agnes Symington (d.1846) and Robert Grieve (1776-1855), a ship-chandler on The Shore.

[2] He was a member of a local geological society in Banff and presented it with a rare sample of graptolite in 1853.

[3] In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being James McBain.

[5] At the time of his Presidency of the RPSE he was living at 2 Keir Street, off Lauriston Place.