David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

Who was David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie?

Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th and 7th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC was a Scottish peer, soldier and courtier.

He was the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie and his wife, Mabell, Countess of Airlie. 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 was made KCVO 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 leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1938, he was elevated to GCVO, made a Knight of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956.