David Harper

David Kingsley Harper (born 1967 in North Yorkshire, England) is an antiques expert, artist, speaker and writer. He appeared as an expert in a number of television shows on antiques, including Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

Early life Harper was born in Yarm near Middlesbrough, and he has two brothers and a sister. He grew up in Zimbabwe after the family moved there for work when he was around 10 months old. He also moved between Yorkshire, Coventry and Birmingham. He has an interest in collecting since childhood and had a large collection of coins and stamps by the age of seven, and bought his first antique when he was nine. He finished his schooling in the early 1980s. The show, however, was short-lived, and he then appeared as an antiques expert on Bargain Hunt, followed by Antiques Road Trip and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

Harper has an interest in art, and he started painting in 2008.

Harper is the author of the 2026 book The God Conundrum which charts his investigation into Christianity after he witnessed the transformation in a close family member who became a born-again Christian. He began as a skeptic agnostic, but says the evidence he found and experienced for Christianity was overwhelming and during the process of writing the book he became a Christian.

Personal life Harper married his wife Wendy in 1997, and they had a daughter in 1996. He has homes in Barnard Castle and London.