David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

Scottish peer, soldier and courtier

Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1893

Place of Birth: Cahir, Munster, Ireland

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1968

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th and 7th Earl of Airlie (18 July 1893, Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland – 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 in 1937.
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.
In 1938, he was elevated to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956.