 He was the 4th son of the 7th Baronet.In 1825 he built Sandford School, which survives in use today, a "surprisingly grand" building in the form of an ancient Greek temple with Doric columns and a large pediment on which was originally sculpted the Davie crest.He died unmarried and was the last in the male line of the Davie family descended from the 1st Baronet, and on his death the baronetcy became extinct.