David Papillon FRS (1691 – 26 February 1762) of Acrise Place, Kent was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1722 and 1741. Papillon was the eldest son of of Acrise, MP for , and his first wife Anne Jolliffe, daughter of William Jolliffe of Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire. He was educated at Morland’s School, Bethnal Green, London and was admitted at the Inner Temple in 1706. He continued his studies in Utrecht from 1707 to 1709, before undertaking the Grand Tour in Germany in 1709. He was called to the bar in 1715. In 1717, he married Mary Keyser, the daughter of Timothy Keyser, a London Merchant. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1720.