David Davidson (engineer)


David Davidson, F.R.S.A., MIStructE was a Scottish structural engineer and early proponent of pyramidology.

Early life

David Davidson was born in Glasgow, but later moved to England where he became a qualified structural engineer, working in the City of Leeds. An initial Agnostic and skeptic of the Bible, in his earlier years Davidson set out to disprove Robert Menzies' and Charles Piazzi Smyth's claims that the internal passages of the Great Pyramid of Giza form a chronological map of prophecies. He subsequently spent 25 years analysing the Great Pyramid.

Conversion to pyramidology

Despite originally being a skeptic, Davidson later converted to being a proponent of pyramidology after reconciling Flinders Petrie's findings with Smyth's through a complex set of calculations. Flinders Petrie claimed he had disproved Smyth's metrological claims regarding the Great Pyramid, but Davidson believed he had found a reconciling truth between both Petrie's and Smyth's calculations and data, later publishing them in his first book The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message as well as an article in a journal. Davidson had worked with Dr. Herbert Aldersmith between 1910-1918 on his book and through Aldersmith converted to being a Christian and believer in British Israelism. Aldersmith's contributions to the book concerned the prophecies he believed were contained in the Great Pyramid while Davidson's contributions were purely mathematical. Later in his life Davidson published several works on British Israelism through Covenant Publishing.
In a 1940 edition of his book on pyramidology, Davidson revised Aldersmith's date predictions for End Times.
On the topic of his conversion to British Israelism he had this to say:

"I studied "critical theology" and God became remote.

I studied "skeptical theology" to find God less than man.

I studied a "freak theory" and found it TRUTH

In the TRUTH of British Israel I found the Bible the living Word of a living God."