David F. O. Russell


Major David Francis Oliphant Russell was a British businessman and philanthropist.

Life

He was born at Rothes House in 1973 and St Andrews University gave hime a second honorary doctorate in 1977.
In 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Malcolm Knox, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, Robert Allan Smith and Anthony Elliot Ritchie. He served as the Society's Vice President from 1943 to 1946.
He died at Rossie House in Fife on 3 January 1993.