David Urquhart, Baron Tayside

David Lauchlan Urquhart, Baron Tayside O.B.E. (* September 13, 1912; † 12 March 1975) was a Scottish entrepreneur.

David Urquhart attended to 1930, the Harris Academy in Dundee. He was Chairman and CEO of Don Brothers, Buist and Company, an old established jute and flax spinning and largest employer in Forfar, as well as Vice President of the Tayside Area Consultative Committee for Economic Planning. Under the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he was appointed in 1967 as a partisan of the Labour Party for Life peer with the title Baron Tayside of Queens Well in the Royal Burgh of Forfar and County of Angus. He stopped in the eight years of membership in the upper house four speeches, all related to the economy of Scotland.

From 1967 Urquhart was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Dundee and justice of the peace and 1957-1961 community leaders in Forfar. He also sat on the board of radio station Grampian Television.

David Urquhart lived at The Manor in Forfar. In 1939 he married. His wife survived him by 30 years and died in 2007 at the age of 93 years.