David Wotherspoon was born in 1849 in Hamilton, the son of a baker and one of ten children. But as early as late 1861 with the family he had moved to Glasgow, to Paterson St. in Tradeston. His father died there in December that year. Certainly by 1871 was a clerk to an Iron Merchant and living at number 24, after which came first the Clydesdale move and then marriage, in 1876 to Mary Galbraith, with whom he would have five daughters. 

It would be shortly after marriage that Wotherspoon seems, aged about twenty-eight, to have given up the game. By 1881 the family was living at 13, Kenmure St. in Pollockshields, he now an increasingly prosperous Iron Merchant. They then moved out of town. In 1891 they were to be found in Bothwell, possibly actually Uddingston, on Clydeford Drive. Yet by 1901 mother and daughters were back in Pollockshields at Leven Street. but with David not recorded. Leven St. was, however, given as his home address in 1906 when in a Kelvin nursing-home he was another to succumb to tuberculosis, plus complications, aged just fifty-six, to be buried in Glasgow's Southern Necropolis, in a since much neglected grave.