Francis Grant Ogilvie
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Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie CB
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 (8 August 1858 – 14 December 1930) was a British
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 scientist and museum curator.

Ogilvie was born in Aberdeen
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, the eldest son of the Reverend Alexander Ogilvie, headmaster of Robert Gordon's College
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. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen
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 (MA
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) and the University of Edinburgh
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 (BSc
Bachelor of Science
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) and then became Assistant Professor of Natural Philosophy
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 at Aberdeen. He then taught science at Robert Gordon's College for four years before being appointed Principal of Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh
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 in 1886. He also initially served as Professor of Physics
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 and Electrical Engineering
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 at the college.

In 1900, he was appointed Director of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. He later joined the museums branch of the Board of Education
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 and became Director of the Science Museum
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 in London
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 in 1911, retiring in 1920. He was also chairman of the Geological Survey Board from 1920 to 1930.

Ogilvie was commissioned Lieutenant
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 in the 1st Aberdeenshire Engineer Volunteer Corps in 1883 and transferred to the Forth Division of Volunteer Submarine Miners (later part of the Royal Engineers
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) as a Captain
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 in 1887. He retired as a Major
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 in 1900.

During the First World War, Ogilvie served as Assistant Controller of the Trench Warfare Research Department from 1915 to 1917 and of the Chemical Warfare Department from 1917 to 1918.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1906 and knighted
Knight Bachelor
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 in the 1920 New Year Honours.

Ogilvie was suddenly taken ill on a train between London and Edinburgh
Edinburgh
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 while travelling to visit relatives and died a few hours after arriving in Edinburgh.

External links

  • Ogilvie, Sir Francis Grant (1858–1930) archive, AIM25
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    , UK.
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