David Drummond Bone

David Drummond Bone was a Scottish writer, journalist, and newspaper publisher active in Glasgow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches, a lively account of the early history and culture of football in Scotland that has remained available through Project Gutenberg.

Bone also belonged to a notable Scottish family whose children included the journalist James Bone, the artist Muirhead Bone, and the author and mariner David Bone. References to him in reliable biographical sources describe him as a prominent newspaper publisher in Glasgow, which helps explain the confident, informed tone of his writing.

For modern readers, his appeal lies in the way he records football before it became the global game we know now. His surviving work offers period detail, anecdote, and a strong sense of how deeply the sport was already woven into Scottish life.