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David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
Summary
Captain David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th and 8th Earl of Airlie, (17 May 1926 – 26 June 2023) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, banker and peer.
Airlie served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1984 until 1997, as well as in a number of honorary positions such as Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle and Lord Lieutenant of Angus. He was the brother-in-law of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.
Airlie was born David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy in Westminster on 17 May 1926. He was the eldest son of the 12th Earl of Airlie and his wife Lady Alexandra Marie Bridget Coke (1891–1984), herself the daughter of 3rd Earl of Leicester. King George V was his godfather. His younger brother was The Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent. He served as a page to his father at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey on 12 May 1937. After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, his childhood friend, on 8 September 2022, he was the last surviving participant in that coronation.
Airlie, then styled Lord Ogilvy by courtesy, was educated at Eton College.
He served with the Scots Guards in Germany, Malaya and Austria. In 1946, he was appointed aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief and High Commissioner to Austria. He left the army in 1950 to attend the Royal Agricultural College to learn more about estate management. He maintained two homes on the family's estate in Angus: Cortachy Castle and Airlie Castle. He also had a home at Sloane Court West in Chelsea, London, where at the time of his death he lived full-time.
In 1953, then Lord Ogilvy took up merchant banking, joining J. Henry Schroder & Co. He was appointed a director of the company in 1961, chairman of Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. in 1973, and then of Schroders plc in 1977.
He succeeded to the earldom of Airlie upon the death of his father in 1968. In 1972, Lord Airlie was named to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.
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