After a resolute fight against cancer, David Mackay, a well-known and respected world leader in environmental conservation and protection, has died.
David was born in Stirling in 1936 and after attending the local elementary schools went on to university, studying chemistry, biology and civil engineering, with obligatory National Service in Germany with the Royal Air Force, necessitating a short career break.
Later in life after a distinguished career mainly in public service in Scotland and abroad, he rose to academic eminence, receiving prodigious accolades, including a doctorate from Paisley University and an honorary professorship working at Stirling University’s Department of Aquatic Environmental Management and the Queen conferring an OBE.
