The Right Honourable The Earl of Airlie KT
Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
In office 1872–1873
Preceded by	The 10th Earl of Stair
Succeeded by	The Earl of Rosslyn
Personal details
Born	David Graham Drummond Ogilvy 4 May 1826 London, England
Died	25 September 1881(1881-09-25) (aged 55) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Spouse	Henrietta Blanche Stanley ​ ​ (m. 1851)​
Children	Lady Henrietta Blanche Hozier Clementina Freeman-Mitford, Baroness Redesdale David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie Lady Maude Whyte Lyulph Ogilvy Lady Griselda Cheape
Parent(s)	David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie Clementina Drummond
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1847)
Occupation	Scottish peer

David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th and 5th Earl of Airlie, KT (4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881),^[1] styled Lord Ogilvy from birth until 1849, was a Scottish peer and soldier.

Background and education

He was the oldest son of David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie, and his first wife, Clementina, daughter of Gavin Drummond.^[2] Ogilvy was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1847.^[3] Two years later, he succeeded his father as earl.^[3] In 1879, Ogilvy received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Glasgow.^[4]

Career

Ogilvy became a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire in 1847.^[2] He was elected a representative peer to the House of Lords in 1850^[2] and served as captain of the Forfarshire Yeomanry Cavalry and the 12th Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers from 1856.^[3] Ogilvy was invested as a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1862.^[5] In 1872, he was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, an office he held until the following year.^[6]

Family and death

On 23 September 1851, he married (Henrietta) Blanche (30 July 1830 – 5 January 1921), second daughter of Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and his wife, Henrietta Dillon-Lee, at Alderley, Cheshire, and had by her two sons and four daughters.^[6][7] Ogilvy died in Denver, Colorado, in 1881 and was succeeded in his titles by his older son, David.^[6]

• Lady (Henrietta) Blanche Ogilvy (8 November 1852 – 23 March 1925); married on 28 September 1873 Colonel Sir Henry Montague Hozier and had issue, including Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (who in 1908 became the wife of Winston Churchill) and Nellie Hozier (the mother of the British socialist Esmond Romilly and the journalist Giles Romilly).^[8]
• Lady Clementina Gertrude Helen Ogilvy (19 June 1854 – 30 April 1932); married 31 December 1874 Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale; they were the grandparents of the Mitford sisters, including Nancy, who edited the letters of the Stanley family, and Jessica, who married her second cousin Esmond Romilly (grandson of Lady Blanche Hozier).
• Lt.-Col. David Stanley William Ogilvy, 11th (or 6th) Earl of Airlie (20 January 1856 – 11 June 1900, killed in action in the Boer War); married Lady Mabell Gore, and had issue. They were grandparents of Angus Ogilvy, who married Princess Alexandra of Kent.
• Lady Maude Josepha Ogilvy (16 November 1859 – 3 April 1933); married on 12 October 1886 Theodore George Willan Whyte, and had issue.
• Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy (25 June 1861 – April 1947); he married 27 August 1902 Edith Gertrude Boothroyd, in Colorado, USA, and had issue.
• Lady Griselda Johanna Helen Ogilvy (20 December 1865 – 12 February 1934); married on 22 December 1897 James Cheape, and had issue.