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Ogilvie (name)
Ogilvie is a surname of Clan Ogilvie from Angus, Scotland, deriving from the Old Welsh words ("high") and ("place"). People with the surname * Ogilvie baronets * Adam Ogilvie, Scottish footballer * Albert Ogilvie (1890–1939), Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania * Alec Ogilvie (1882–1962), pioneer British aviator * Alexander Walker Ogilvie, Canadian politician * Alick Ogilvie, Australian rules footballer who died in WWI * Andy Ogilvie (born 1965), Canadian lacrosse player * Bill Ogilvie (1932–2011), Scottish football player and manager * Dame Bridget Ogilvie (born 1938), Australian scientist * Campbell Ogilvie, Scottish football administrator (Rangers FC, Heart of Midlothian FC, Scottish Football Association) * Charles Atmore Ogilvie (1793–1873), English priest * Charles Ogilvie (other), several people ** Charles Ogilvie (footballer), Scottish amateur footballer ** Charles Ogilvie (sailor), Jamaican sailor ** Charles Ogilvie (merchant), Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ogilvie (footballer)
Charles Scott Ogilvie (19 December 1884 – 1939) was a Scottish amateur Association football, footballer who played as an outside left in the Scottish Football League, Scottish League for Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park. Personal life Ogilvie emigrated to Canada in October 1912 and worked as a civil engineer. After Canada's entry into the First World War in August 1914, Ogilvie joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and became a corporal in a Canadian Highlander battalion. Career statistics References 1884 births Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players Men's association football outside forwards Queen's Park F.C. players Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers Footballers from East Renfrewshire Scottish emigrants to Canada 1939 deaths Scottish civil engineers {{Scotland-footy-forward-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ogilvie
Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie FRSE (7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949) was a British broadcasting executive and university administrator, who was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert Foot. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast from 1934 to 1938. He was knighted by King George VI on 10 June 1942. Early life and education Ogilvie was born in February 1893 in Valparaíso, Chile, the youngest son of Mary Ann (née Wolff) and William Maxwell Ogilvie, an engineer from Harrow Weald in northwest London. His parents were of Scottish descent. Ogilvie was educated at Packwood Haugh School and Clifton College, before beginning studying for a Literae humaniores degree at Balliol College, Oxford in 1911. From the beginning of his undergraduate studies, he displayed an interest in economics. Having gained first class in his Honour Moderations exams, Ogilvie's studies were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Florida
East Florida ( es, Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of Spanish Florida from 1783 to 1821. Great Britain gained control of the long-established Spanish colony of ''La Florida'' in 1763 as part of the treaty ending the French and Indian War (as the Seven Years' War was called in North America). Deciding that the territory was too large to administer as a single unit, Britain divided Florida into two colonies separated by the Apalachicola River: East Florida with its capital in St. Augustine and West Florida with its capital in Pensacola. East Florida was much larger and comprised the bulk of the former Spanish territory of Florida and most of the current state of Florida. It had also been the most populated region of Spanish Florida, but before control was transferred to Britain, most residents – including virtually everyone in St. Augustine – left the territory, with most migrating to Cuba. Britain tried to attract settlers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ogilvie (Governor)
Francis Ogilvie was a British Army officer who served as interim governor of East Florida from 30 July 1763 to 29 August 1764. Commissioned into the 9th Regiment of Foot, Ogilvie served in Cuba, and was then posted to Saint Augustine, Florida St. Augustine ( ; es, San Agustín ) is a city in the Southeastern United States and the county seat of St. Johns County on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabi ..., where he held the highest military title among the members of the city's military garrisons. References {{Reflist Royal Norfolk Regiment officers 18th-century British Army personnel People of British Florida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Grant Ogilvie
Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie CB FRSE (8 August 1858 – 14 December 1930) was a Scottish educator, museum director, and scientist. Birth, parentage and early career Ogilvie was born in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, the eldest son of the Reverend Alexander Ogilvie, headmaster of Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and his wife Maria Matilda (née Nicoll). His younger sister, Dame Maria Gordon, was an eminent scientist in the fields of geology and palaeontology. He was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and University of Aberdeen ( MA, 1879). After graduating, he "came to Edinburgh where in addition to Engineering he devoted much attention to Natural Science. He was a favourite pupil of Sir Archibald Geikie and a friend of Sir John Murray of Challenger fame, and throughout his life he was an ardent student of Physical Geology, and in particular of the relation of geology to scenery and the economic applications of geological investigations" (''Proceedings of the Royal Society o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Ogilvie
Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946) is a Scottish environmental artist renowned for her work exploring the effects of climate change, impact of climate change. Her work is held in several public and private collections and she exhibits internationally. Ogilvie is considered one of the most significant Scottish artists of her generation. Biography Ogilvie was born near Montrose, Angus, Montrose and grew up near the Cairngorms in Scotland. Ogilvie attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1964 to 1969, where she studied sculpture. While initially focusing on sculpture, Ogilvie has spent much of her career creating drawings on paper. In the 2000s–early 2010s, she undertook research in Greenland, working with scientists and connecting with the local Inuit community; the resulting project was titled ''Out of Ice''. More recent works are created across many mediums including water, music, light, architecture and video. Ogilvie has lectured at the University of Edinburgh where she is an Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Ogilvie
Elisabeth M. Ogilvie (May 20, 1917 – September 9, 2006) was an American novelist. Ogilvie is best known for writing series of novels set on islands off the coast of Maine, where she lived as an adult. She died in Cushing, Maine, Cushing, Maine, at the age of 89. Early life and education Ogilvie was born in Boston on May 20, 1917, to Frank and Maude Ogilvie. She had three older brothers. Growing up, Ogilvie spent summers on the Maine island of Criehaven, Maine, Criehaven. She was raised in Dorchester, Boston, Dorchester and Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), Wollaston, and she graduated from North Quincy High School in 1934. Ogilvie did not earn a college degree, but took a writing course at Harvard University, Harvard. Career Ogilvie published her first novel, ''High Tide at Noon'' in 1944, which was the first of eight novels in the Bennett's Island series. She modeled the setting on Criehaven, the Maine island where she spent summers growing up. Ogilvie wrote 46 adult, young a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ogilvie
Edward David Stuart Ogilvie (25 July 1814 – 25 January 1896) was an English-born Australian politician and businessman. He served as a member of the Upper House of the New South Wales parliament. He built the renowned estate Yulgilbar. Biography He was born in Tottenham to Royal Navy officer William Ogilvie of Clan Ogilvie, and Mary White. On 2 September 1858 he married Theodosia de Burgh, with whom he had ten children and who died in 1886. He married Alicia Georgiana Loftus Tottenham on 21 December 1890. He and his family migrated to Sydney in 1825, and Ogilvie worked for his father on stations on the Upper Hunter and Liverpool Plains, developing a property called Yulgilbar along with his brother W. K. Ogilvie and C. G. Tindal, the son of his father's Royal Navy colleague. By 1850, Yulgilbar was approximately 777 square kilometres in territory. Ogilvie befriended the local Aboriginals, employing them where they were willing and allowing them their land rights with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Ogilvie
Duncan Henderson Ogilvie (8 October 1911 – 6 May 1967) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Born in the Shettleston district of Glasgow and raised mostly in Clackmannanshire, Ogilvie began his senior career with Motherwell, newly crowned champions of the Scottish Football League, in 1932. He initially had to wait until the departure of the older Johnny Murdoch to claim a regular place in the side, but quickly made an impact at Fir Park and also soon gained a Scotland cap against Austria in November 1933. In March 1936, Ogilvie moved south to join Huddersfield Town but before the end of the same year returned to Motherwell (where a John Ogilvie was also on the club's books) in a swap deal for Willie MacFadyen. Ogilvie appeared in the 1939 Scottish Cup Final, but the ''Steelmen'' lost 4–0 to Clyde. Like many players, his career was interrupted by the Second World War and he concentrated on his engineering work during this time. Indeed, in 1941, he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ogilvie (cricketer)
Alan David Ogilvie (born 3 June 1951) is a former Australian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1977 to 1978 during World Series Cricket. Biography Ogilvie attended Brisbane Grammar School where he was a champion sportsman, representing the school in rugby, cricket, tennis, athletics and rowing. He played for the Queensland state colt side and was picked in the Sheffield Shield team in 1971–72 but was unable to rise past twelfth man for the next two seasons. He was eventually dropped from the side and lost his spot in the colts, but good grade form in 1974–75 saw him make his first class debut for Queensland. 1977–78 Season Ogilvie started the 1977–78 season extremely well, scoring consecutive centuries against Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia. This saw him selected to play at number three in an Australian team weakened by the defections of senior players to World Series Cricket to play India. Test selection Ogilvie made his Test debut in Brisba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Ogilvie
Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canadian record producer, mixer, songwriter and musician. The former member of bands Skinny Puppy and Jakalope started his recording career in Vancouver working as an engineer at Mushroom Studios. He has been described by '' SPIN'' as the "engineer" of Marilyn Manson's ''Antichrist Superstar'' (1996) album. Dave has worked with many artists over his extensive career including Carly Rae Jepsen, Marianas Trench, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, 54-40, Queen, David Bowie, Skinny Puppy, Spineshank, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Doughboys, The Birthday Massacre, Jakalope, Queensrÿche, Men Without Hats, Left Spine Down, Xavier Rudd, Sloan, All Systems Go!, Coal Chamber, Treble Charger, Stereos, Ministry, SNFU, The Grapes of Wrath, Mötley Crüe Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee, lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
