The Reverend Doctor David Haxton Carswell Read, B.D. D.D. (2 January 1910 – 7 January 2001) was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and author who served as Senior Minister at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, New York from 1956–1989. He also served as the first Chaplain of the University of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1955 and as "Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland" from 1952–1956.