David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th and 5th Earl of Airlie (4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881), styled Lord Ogilvy from birth until 1849, was a Scottish peer.
Background and education
He was the oldest son of
David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie
David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie (16 December 1785 – 20 August 1849) was a Scottish peer and planter.
Early life
David was the youngest son of Walter Ogilvy, who was ''de jure'' 8th Earl of Airlie, and Jean Ogilvy.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary G ...
, and his first wife, Clementina, daughter of Gavin Drummond.
Ogilvy was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in 1847.
Two years later, he succeeded his father as earl.
[ In 1879, Ogilvy received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the ]University of Glasgow
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Career
Ogilvy became a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire
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in 1847.[ He was elected a ]representative peer
In the United Kingdom, representative peers were those peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to sit in the British House of Lords. Until 1999, all members of the Peerage of England held the right to ...
to the House of Lords
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in 1850[ and served as captain of the Forfarshire Yeomanry Cavalry and the 12th Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers from 1856.][ Ogilvy was invested as a Knight of the ]Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland, who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order. The ...
in 1862. In 1872, he was appointed , an office he held until the following year.[
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Family and death
On 23 September 1851, he married (Henrietta) Blanche (30 July 1830 – 5 January 1921), second daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (13 November 180216 June 1869), known as The Lord Eddisbury between 1848 and 1850, was a British politician.
Background
Stanley was the son of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, and ...
, and his wife, Henrietta Henrietta may refer to:
* Henrietta (given name), a feminine given name, derived from the male name Henry
Places
* Henrietta Island in the Arctic Ocean
* Henrietta, Mauritius
* Henrietta, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
United States
* Henrie ...
, at Alderley, Cheshire
Alderley was one of the eight ancient parishes of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire, England. It included the following townships:
* Over Alderley
*Nether Alderley
*Great Warford
Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1886 these townships became c ...
, and had by her two sons and four daughters.[ Ogilvy died in ]Denver, Colorado
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, in 1881 and was succeeded in his titles by his older son, David
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.Henry Montague Hozier
Sir Henry Montague Hozier (20 March 1838 – 28 February 1907) was a British Army officer who became secretary of Lloyd's of London.
Biography
The third son of James C. Hozier of Newlands and Mauldslie Castle, Lanarkshire, Hozier was educated at ...
and had issue, including Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (who in 1908 became the wife of Winston Churchill
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) and Nellie Hozier (the mother of the British socialist Esmond Romilly
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Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following ...
and the journalist Giles Romilly
Giles Samuel Bertram Romilly (19 September 1916 – 2 August 1967) was a communist journalist, Second World War POW, brother of Esmond Romilly, and nephew of Winston Churchill through his wife Clementine Churchill.
Romilly was educated at Well ...
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* Lady Clementina Gertrude Helen Ogilvy (19 June 1854 – 30 April 1932); married 31 December 1874 Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, (24 February 183717 August 1916) was a British diplomat, collector and writer. Nicknamed "Barty", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters.
Early years
Freeman-Mitford was ...
; they were the grandparents of the Mitford sisters
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, including Nancy, who edited the letters of the Stanley family, and Jessica, who married her second cousin Esmond Romilly
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Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following ...
(grandson of Lady Blanche Hozier).
* Lt.-Col. David Stanley William Ogilvy, 11th (or 6th) Earl of Airlie (20 January 1856 – 11 June 1900, killed in action in the Boer War
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sou ...
); married Lady Mabell Gore, and had issue. They were grandparents of Angus Ogilvy
Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy (14 September 1928 – 26 December 2004) was a British businessman. He is best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Ogilvy is also remembered for his role in a b ...
, who married Princess Alexandra of Kent
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936) is a member of the British royal family. Queen Elizabeth II and Alexandra were first cousins through their fathers, King George V ...
.
* Lady Maude Josepha Ogilvy (16 November 1859 – 3 April 1933); married on 12 October 1886 Theodore George Willan Whyte, and had issue.
* Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy (25 June 1861 – April 1947); he married 27 August 1902 Edith Gertrude Boothroyd, in Colorado, USA, and had issue.
* Lady Griselda Johanna Helen Ogilvy (20 December 1865 – 12 February 1934); married on 22 December 1897 James Cheape, and had issue.
See also
* Airlie, Oregon
Airlie is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States.
The community was named for David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie of Scotland, who was president of the narrow-gauge Oregonian Railway Company. Airlie was the southern termin ...
References
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1826 births
1881 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Deputy Lieutenants of Forfarshire
Earls of Airlie
Knights of the Thistle
Scottish representative peers
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers