David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

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.

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

1. ^ [1] The Peerage entry
2. ^ [2] Time Magazine April 7th 1924

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Somers	Lord-in-Waiting 1926 – 1929	Succeeded by Unknown
Court offices
New title	Lord Chamberlain to The Queen 1937 – 1965	Succeeded by The Earl of Dalhousie
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	Lord Lieutenant of Angus 1936 – 1967	Succeeded by The Earl of Dalhousie
Preceded by The Lord Elphinstone	Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle 1956 – 1966	Succeeded by The Duke of Buccleuch
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by David William Stanley Ogilvy	Earl of Airlie 1900 – 1968	Succeeded by David George Patrick Coke Ogilvy