David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (b. 1893)
Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th and 7th Earl of Airlie (18 July 1893 – 28 December 1968) was a Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier.He was the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie, and his wife, the former Lady Mabell Gore. He inherited his father's titles in 1900 at the age of six, 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 was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1929.In 1937, he became Lord Lieutenant of Angus and was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth. As a senior member of the royal household, he was a guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. He was elevated to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1938, made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956.He was the father in-law of Princess Alexandra of Kent, Lady Ogilvy.
1968Dec, 28
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