David MacIver (24 August 1840 – 1 September 1907) was an English steam ship owner and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1874 and 1907. MacIver was the eldest son of Charles MacIver of Calderstone, Allerton near Liverpool, and his wife Mary Ann Morrison, daughter of D Morrison of Glasgow. He was educated at the

Royal Institution School The Liverpool Royal Institution was a learned society set up in 1814 for "the Promotion of Literature, Science and the Arts". William Corrie, William Rathbone IV, Thomas Stewart Traill and William Roscoe were among the founders. It was sometime ...

, Liverpool. From 1863 he was a partner in the firm of D and C MacIver who were managing owners of the Cunard Steamship Company. He was chairman of the

Liverpool Steamship Owners Association The Liverpool Steamship Owners Association was founded in 1858 to bring together the major shipping lines and express their collective views to the newly formed Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in Liverpool, England. It grew to have an influence on n ...

and President of the American Chamber of Commerce. He was also a director of the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

. He was a major in the 11th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, an alderman and a J.P. for Liverpool. He was also commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
/ref> In 1874 MacIver was elected Member of Parliament for Birkenhead. He held the seat until 1885. In 1898 he was elected MP for Liverpool Kirkdale and held the seat until his death aged 67 in 1907. MacIver married firstly Anne Rankin daughter of Robert Rankin of Bromborough and after her death in 1869 he married Edith Eleanor Squarey daughter of A T Squarey of Bebington.

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* 1840 births 1907 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 British businesspeople in shipping People from Allerton Directors of the Great Western Railway People educated at the Royal Institution School Businesspeople from Liverpool 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub