Modern English biography

Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies_ (1875) 43–52; _Couch’s Reminiscences of Oxford_ (1892) 208, 422; _Letters of J. B. Mozley_ (1885) 27, 33, 37, 142, 162, 184. OGILVIE, GEORGE. Professor of institutes of medicine in Aberdeen univ. 1860–77; author of An introductory lecture at Marischal college and university of Aberdeen 1852; The master builders’ man, or the principles of organic architecture 1858; The genetic cycle in organic nature, or the succession of forms in the propagation of plants and animals 1859; On the forms and structure of fern stems 1859. OGILVIE, JOHN (son of Wm. Ogilvie, farmer). _b._ parish of Marnoch, Banffshire 17 April 1797; worked as a ploughman till 1818, when he lost one of his legs; a schoolmaster; entered Marischal coll. Aberdeen Oct. 1824, M.A. 1828, LL.D. 1848; mathematical master in Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen 13 May 1831 to July 1859; contributed under the signature Iota, the imitations of Horace in the Scottish dialect to the Aberdeen Mag. 1831–2; edited The imperial dictionary, English, technical, and scientific, 2 vols. 1850, Supplement 1855, new ed. 4 vols. 1882–3; The comprehensive English dictionary 1864; The students’ English dictionary 1865; An English dictionary for the use of schools 1867. _d._ Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1867. _W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord_ (1887) 613–16. OGILVIE, ROBERT ANNESLEY. _b._ 1807; educ. Eton; clerk in secretary’s office, custom house, London 27 July 1827, inspector general of the waterside department 27 Aug. 1857; surveyor general of customs 1863–76; assistant comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with France 23 Jany. 1860; joint comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with Austria 16 Dec. 1865; British delegate at conference on sugar convention in London 1–12 Aug. 1872; C.B. 28 Aug. 1872; his widow Robina Ogilvie was granted a civil list pension of £100 19 June 1879. _d._ 24 Mecklenburgh square, London 13 May 1879. OGILVIE, WILLIAM. Cadet Bombay army 1804; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 20 June 1805, lieut. 20 Feb. 1809 to 1818; lieut. 10 N.I. 1818–20; lieut. 12 N.I. 1820; captain 26 N.I. 19 July 1821, major 26 Jany. 1838 to 27 Nov. 1844; judge advocate general 30 June 1836 to death; lieut. col. 20 N.I. 27 Nov. 1844 to 22 Dec. 1849; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 22 Dec. 1849 to death. _d._ Poonah 17 June 1851. OGILVY, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. Sub-lieut. R.N. 18 March 1869; lieut. 8 April 1873, retired 13 Oct. 1876; naval knight of Windsor 6 May 1881 to death. _d._ 27 Aug. 1887. OGILVY, DAVID STEUART. Unpaid vice-consul at Gallipoli, Dardanelles 9 May 1864 to 7 July 1868; captain on the staff of French army Oct. or Nov. 1870. _killed_ by a bullet in the forehead while charging the Germans at battle of Beaune la Rolande 28 Nov. 1870. OGILVY, GEORGE RAMSAY (son of James Ramsay). _b._ about 1820; assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844; sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. _d._ Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 276. OGILVY, SIR JOHN, 9 Baronet (1 son of admiral sir Wm. Ogilvy, _d._ 1823). _b._ Edinburgh 17 March 1803; educ. Harrow 1817–21; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 5 Nov. 1821; lieut. 2 life guards 1826–31; succeeded 1823; convenor of Forfarshire 1828 to Dec. 1889; vice lieut. of Forfarshire 1860; contested Montrose 9 March 1855; M.P. Dundee 1857–74; hon. col. 1 Dundee rifle volunteers 1865 to death; major general Royal company of archers; resided Baldoven, near Dundee. _d._ Archerfield, Berwickshire, the residence of his son Henry Hamilton Ogilvy 29 March 1890. OGLANDER, SIR WILLIAM, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander, _d._ 1806). _b._ Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5 Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. _d._ Parnham 17 Jany. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_ 297 (1852); _Hutchin’s Dorset i_ 445 (1796), _iv_ 371 (1815). OGLE, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of admiral sir Chaloner Ogle, 1 baronet 1727–1816). _b._ 24 May 1775; entered navy 1787; captain of the Minerva in the Mediterranean 11 Jany. 1796; captain of the Princess Augusta yacht 1806–15; R.A. 12 Aug. 1819; commander-in-chief in North America 27 April 1827 to 14 July 1830; V.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 23 Nov. 1841; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 30 Sept. 1845 to 13 Sept. 1848; admiral of the fleet 8 Dec. 1857. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 16 June 1858. OGLE, CHARLES CHALONER (4 son of John Ogle of St. Clare, near Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent). _b._ 16 April 1851; matric. at univ. of London June 1869; pupil of F. W. Roper the architect; an associate of the R.I.B.A. 1872; went to Athens Aug. 1875, where he worked in office of Her Ziller the royal architect; special correspondent of the Times in the war between Turkey and Montenegro 1878; wrote letters from Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and Thessaly; knight of the order of the Redeemer; was present at battle between Turkish troops and the insurgents occupying Mont Pelion and the town of Macrynitza 28 and 29 March 1878, slept at Katochori 29 and 30 March, found _dead_ in a ravine 1 April. _bur._ the Piræus, Athens 10 April. _Streit’s Mémoire concernant les détails du meutre de Charles Ogle_ (1878); _Times 2, 10, 11, 25 April, 19 June 1878_; _Graphic xvii_ 401 (1878) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 13 April 1878 pp._ 329, 330 _portrait_. OGLE, SIR EDMUND, 6 baronet (3 son of rev. James Ogle, V. of Crondale, Hants 1778–1833). _b._ 20 Sept. 1816; 2 lieut. R.E. 9 June 1834, colonel 6 July 1867, col. commandant 11 Feb. 1883 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; succeeded his cousin as 6 baronet 2 Dec.