Sir David de Offington (died c.1312) was an English-born Crown official in late thirteenth-century Ireland.
[3] He first appears in Ireland as custodian of the Irish estates of George de Cantilupe, Lord of Abergavenny, who attained his majority that year, but died a few months later.
He was also seneschal of Kilkenny and custodian for the Irish lands of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester.
[6] The Court was a very recent creation, and this was some years before the first Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer was appointed.
David seems to have been the first Baron, although there are a few references to other men, like William le Brun, who held an office of that name earlier, and he presumably sat alone until he was joined on the Court by Richard de Soham, another English-born official long resident in Ireland, the following year.