Davidson T. Gordon, 78, of Rye, NY, passed away on March 8, 2023 at Greenwich Hospital after a short battle with aspiration pneumonia; he was surrounded by his four children in his final days.

Davidson was born on June 29, 1944 in Aberdeen, Scotland to parents Dr. Christie Wilson Gordon and Robina Alice Munro.

After graduating from Fettes College in Edinburgh in 1962, he went on to study law at Birmingham University, receiving an LLB in 1965, before obtaining an LLM from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1970.

He married Hazel Jean Cameron McLaren in 1971 and they went on to have four children.

Professionally, his career included time with Coudert Brothers in New York, Freshfields in London, American Express in New York before finishing the final two decades of his career working with former colleagues, who had started a boutique law firm that eventually merged into Day Pitney LLP, from where he retired in 2019.

Since moving to Rye in 1978, he served as an active member of the Rye Presbyterian Church, helped run and expand the Rye Youth Intramural Soccer Program, coached his son’s travel soccer teams and served on the Rye School Board of Education for six years. He was particularly proud of his strong support for the successful effort to keep Milton School open in the 1980s.

Relocating to the USA was driven by his desire to provide a better life and opportunities for his family though his love of Scotland never faded. Throughout his life he ensured that his family had lots of time back to the UK with family and friends. In his final decades, he would spend weeks back in UK attending various reunion events and paying visits to lifelong friends. His children are grateful for the connections that he helped keep strong and the time spent golfing, hiking and enjoying pints with family on the Isle of Arran.

Davidson was predeceased by his wife Hazel, who passed away in 1998, and is survived by his four children, Lorna Mary, Alexander, Ramsay, and Robert, five grandchildren, Oliver, Hazel, Penny, Alistair and Audrey, daughter-in-law, Erin, and two sons-in-law, Mark and Jeff.

In lieu of flowers, we ask you to consider a donation in his honor to Friends of Rye Town Park or to the Rye Presbyterian Church.

Funeral service will be held at Rye Presbyterian Church at 2:30pm on April 5, 2023

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