David Nicoll LoweFRSEOBE (1909–1999) was a Scottish botanist and administrator. He served as Secretary to the Carnegie Trust in Dunfermline 1954 to 1970. He greatly improved the relationship between the Trust and its applicants.[1]
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He was born in Arbroath on 9 September 1909. He attended Arbroath High School then won a Kitchener Scholarship to St Andrews University. At university he founded the Mountaineering Club and served as its first President. He graduated both MA and BSc.
Following graduation he intended to join the Civil Service. In 1935 he was appointed Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In the Second World War he sat on the War Cabinet Secretariat, linked to the Ministry of Production. He returned the British Association after the war, and stayed until 1954.[1]
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