In 2010 he was appointed interim chair of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS), then in severe financial trouble.
The recent study seems to involve the NTS (nucleus tractus solitarius; 'solitary tract' in the article).
June, Marchioness of Aberdeen, told me that it was on account of friendship with Davie, and confidence in him, that the fourth Marquess of Aberdeen agreed in 1978 that Haddo House, home of the Gordon family for 400 years, should be administered by NTS.
Mike Andrews from the NTS eCrime Team said: "Our growing concern is with the sale of 'big ticket' items such as electrical goods and clocked cars that are not only expensive but could potentially put lives at risk.
It's nice to have that low-fi background element going on," said Sean McAuliffe, NTS managing director.
National Trading Standards (NTS) said it was aware of a growing number of scammers making cold calls pretending to be from the Telephone Preference Service and telling victims that the service now costs money.
John Davie, soldier and NTS Scotland administrator: born 30 March 1921; married Coralie Garnham; died 29 June 2015.
In 1976 HQ Forbes bequeathed to NTS Drum Castle near Drumoak, part of which goes back to the 12th century, and where 21 generations of his family had lived and made additions over the years.
After Staff College, Camberley, in 1955, Davie felt that having missed Sandhurst he had reached a glass ceiling in his army career, so welcomed the approach from Stormonth Darling to join NTS as his chief of staff.
The combination of Marjoribanks and Davie enabled NTS to smoothly take over some and develop others of the castles of Marr, their strongest cluster of properties.
The approach was suggested by Will Marjoribanks, the softly spoken, reserved but authoritative NTS director for the North-east of Scotland.
