David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden


David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden of Cusehnie, FSAL, FSAS was a Scottish businessman, nationalist and sometime Baron of Cushnie-Lumsden.
The son of Henry Gordon Strange Lumsden and Sydney Mary Elliot, he studied at Allhallows, Devon; Bedford School; and Jesus College, Cambridge. He served in the Territorial Army with the London Scottish.

Career

He worked as an executive at British American Tobacco from 1959 until his retirement in 1982. He was the Director of Heritage Porcelain Ltd.
and Heritage Recordings Ltd.

Religious affiliations

His Requiem Mass in 2008 was the first celebration in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, since 1969, of Mass as in 1962 Roman Missal, in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI's indication, the year before, that, "for those faithful or priests who request it, the pastor should allow celebrations in this extraordinary form also in special circumstances such as funerals".

Nationalist or secular affiliations