David Lowe (horticulturalist)

Sir David Lowe CBE FRSE DL (12 May 1899 – 3 November 1980) was a Scottish horticulturalist and businessman.

In 1935 as a member of the Royal Aero Club, describing himself as a Farmer at Burnside, Prestonpans he passed pilots license taking his test taken in a De Havilland Moth.

[2] In 1950 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

His proposers were Stephen J Watson, Sir Edmund Hudson, Alexander M Smith, and Alan William Greenwood.

Also in 1962 he was appointed chairman of the Livingston, West Lothian Town Corporation, overseeing the development of 6,692 acres (2,708 hectares) acres in Mid and West Lothian into the fourth post-Second World War new town to be built in Scotland.