David Knox

Sir David Laidlaw Knox (30 May 1933 – 14 September 2025) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1997.

Early life Knox was born in Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland on 30 May 1933, the son of a printer and publisher. He was educated at Lockerbie Academy and Dumfries Academy, afterwards studying for an external BSc(Econ.) at the University of London. He was a management trainee at Waterston's stationers and printers in Edinburgh from 1953 to 1956 before becoming a printing executive in Worcester and, later on, an organisation and methods consultant for Lucas Industries in Birmingham. Having moved south, he chaired the West Midlands Young Conservatives in 1963–64, and the region’s Conservative Political Centre from 1966 to 1969.