David Tweedie (1865, Swinton – 1934, Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught in Scotland and Egypt.
He matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1881 at the age of sixteen.
In 1898 Tweedie went to Egypt to work at the Ras-El-Tin Government School in Alexandria.
[2] From 1915 to 1923 Tweedie worked as Lecturer in Mathematics at the Royal School of Engineering, Cairo.
[1][2] In 1932 Tweedie moved to Llanwern, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales and in 1933 he married Gladys Emily Jones.