In the novel The Hollow, David Angkatell is a student at Oxford. Bookish, anti-social, and possessor of "modern" ideas regarding the working class. He tries to express an air of superiority.
David has met Edward Angkatell before, but meets Sir Henry and Lady Angkatell at The Hollow for the first time despite being related to them. David, as being last male in the family line, stands to inherit Ainswick after Edward.