- David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
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Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th and 7th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC (18 July 1893 Tipperary – 28 December 1968) was a Scottish peer, soldier and courtier. [1]
Ogilvy was the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie and his wife, Mabell. He inherited his father's titles in 1900 and was one of the trainbearers to Mary of Teck at her coronation in 1911. He became a Representative Peer for Scotland in 1922, was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in Stanley Baldwin's government in 1926 and made a KCVO in 1929.
In 1937, he became Lord Lieutenant of Angus and was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth in 1937. In 1938, he was promoted to GCVO, made a Knight of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of that order in 1956.
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Marriage
On 17 July 1917, Lord Airlie married Lady Alexandra Coke (the second daughter of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester) and they had six children:
- David George Coke Patrick, styled Lord Ogilvy, later 13th/8th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926)
- Hon. Angus James Bruce (1928-2004), married Princess Alexandra of Kent
- Hon. James Donald Diarmid (b. 1934), married Caroline, daughter of the 9th Earl of Jersey
- Lady (Victoria) Jean Marjorie Mabell (1918-2004), married Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd.
- Lady Margaret Helen Isla Marion (b. 1920), married Iain Tennant
- Lady Griselda Davina Roberta (1924-1977), married Peter Edward Gerald Balfour
Military career
Lord Airlie was commissioned into the 10th Hussars from Sandhurst in 1912. He reached the rank of Captain in the First World War, in which he won the Military Cross.
He retired from the Regular Army in 1921, but joined the 5th Battalion (4th/5th Battalion from 1922), Black Watch (Territorial Army) as a Major. He was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding from 1924 to 1929, being promoted Colonel in 1928. In 1940 he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Guards, reverting at his own request to the rank of Major until 1942. He resigned his commission in 1948.[citation needed]
Sporting pursuits
Lord Airlie owned many racehorses, most notably the steeplechaser, Master Robert who won the 1924 Grand National in the Earl's colours. [2]
References
Political offices Preceded by
The Lord SomersLord-in-Waiting
1926 – 1929Succeeded by
UnknownCourt offices New title Lord Chamberlain to The Queen
1937 – 1965Succeeded by
The Earl of DalhousieHonorary titles Preceded by
The Earl of Strathmore and KinghorneLord Lieutenant of Angus
1936 – 1967Succeeded by
The Earl of DalhousiePreceded by
The Lord ElphinstoneChancellor of the Order of the Thistle
1956 – 1966Succeeded by
The Duke of BuccleuchPeerage of Scotland Preceded by
David William Stanley OgilvyEarl of Airlie
1900 – 1968Succeeded by
David George Patrick Coke OgilvyJohn Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl · Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose · Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe · Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar · Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone · David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie · Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch · Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Home of Hirsel · John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch · David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
Categories:- Earls in the Peerage of Scotland
- Knights of the Thistle
- Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
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- Black Watch officers
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- Sandhurst graduates
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Scottish representative peers
- Lord-Lieutenants of Angus
- 1893 births
- 1968 deaths
- Scottish nobility stubs
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