David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie (4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881), styled Lord Ogilvy from birth until 1849, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and rancher in
Colorado
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Background and education
Born in London in 1826, he was the second (but eldest surviving) son of
David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie
David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie (16 December 1785 – 20 August 1849) was a Scottish peer.
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 Gibbs, H.A. ...
, and his first wife, Clementine, daughter of Gavin Drummond.
Ogilvy was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he graduated with a
BA in 1847.
Two years later, he succeeded his father as earl.
[ In 1879, Ogilvy received an Honorary LLD 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 ]Scottish representative peer
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to the House of Lords
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in 1850[ and served as captain of the ]Forfarshire Yeomanry Cavalry
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and the 12th Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers from 1856.[ Ogilvy was invested as a Knight of the ]Order of the Thistle
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in 1862. In 1872, he was appointed , an office he held until the following year.[ He was a founder and served as first President of the ]Girls' Public Day School Company
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Private life
On 23 September 1851, Airlie married Hon. (Henrietta) Blanche Stanley (30 July 1830 – 5 January 1921), second daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
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Early life and education
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, and his wife, Henrietta Dillon-Lee, at Alderley, Cheshire, and had by her two sons and four daughters.[The manner of his proposal and his acceptance in early August is related by Blanche's mother to her husban]
in a letter date 4 August 1851
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* Lady (Henrietta) Blanche Ogilvy (8 November 1852 – 23 March 1925); married Col. Sir Henry Montague Hozier and had issue, including Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, the wife of Winston Churchill
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.
* Lady Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy (19 June 1854 – 30 April 1932); married Bertram Mitford (created Baron Redesdale
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in 1902), and had issue; they were the grandparents of the Mitford sisters.
* Lt.-Col. David Stanley William Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie (20 January 1856 – 11 June 1900, killed in action in the Boer War
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); married Lady Mabell Gore, and had issue; they were grandparents of Sir 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 bu ...
, who married Princess Alexandra of Kent
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.
* Lady Maude Josepha Ogilvy (16 November 1859 – 3 April 1933); married Theodore Whyte, and had issue.
* Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy (25 June 1861 – April 1947); married Edith Boothroyd, in Colorado, USA, and had issue.
* Lady Griselda Johanna Helen Ogilvy (20 December 1865 – 12 February 1934); married James Cheape, and had issue.
Ogilvy died in Denver
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, Colorado, in 1881 and was succeeded in his titles by his older son, David
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See also
* Airlie, Oregon
References
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1826 births
1881 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
David
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The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
Deputy lieutenants of Forfarshire
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Knights of the Thistle
Scottish representative peers
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry officers
Younger sons of earls