[citation needed] David Strang studied at the University of Glasgow.

He printed the plates of etchers such as Edmund Blampied,[2] John Taylor Arms, Robert Austin, Orovida Camille Pissarro and Frederick Clifford Dixon, examples of which are in the British Museum, many of which he donated.

[4] In April 1918, at the age of 30, Strang married 20-year old Dorothy Bella Labbett at Marylebone in London.

Strang was opposed to Dorothy appearing as a soprano on stage at the London Palladium,[5] which she did under the name Dora Labbette, so she left him in 1920.

He was granted a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights in 1921[6] and Dorothy filed for divorce in 1928.