George Drummond Ogilvie

Lieutenant Colonel

Sir George Drummond Ogilvie

KCIE CSI
Born1882
Died1966
RankLieutenant Colonel
ChildrenHon. Vere Birdwood
Queen Mary with Matron Saxby, Sir Harold Wernher and Sir George Ogilvie (far right). 1948

Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Drummond Ogilvie, KCIE, CSI (1882 - 1966) was a British Indian Army and Indian Political Service officer.

Career in India

George Drummond Ogilvie was in the Indian Political Service. From 14 October 1932 to April 1937 he was responsible for the administration of the former province of British India, Ajmer-Merwara, as Chief Commissioner, in the capacity of agent to the Governor General in Rajputana.[1][2][3][4] He was appointed Companion, Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.), and in 1936 he was knighted.[5]

King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers

In 1938, in Sister Agnes's time, he was appointed house governor to King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, London. He supervised the hospital's move from Grosvenor Gardens to Luton Hoo on the outbreak of the Second World War, and was responsible for the purchase of the house at Beaumont Street, where the hospital now stands, having opened in 1948.[6][7]

Family

He married Lorna Rome, the only daughter of Thomas Rome JP of Charlton House.[8] They had one daughter, Elizabeth Vere Drummond Ogilvie, who succeeded him on the hospital council with the title secretary.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Provinces of British India". www.worldstatesmen.org. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ Sahay, Uday (2019). Central board of secondary education (PDF). Delhi: SAUV Communications private limited. p. 24.
  3. ^ Report of the Indian States Committee, 1928-1929 (PDF). 1929. p. 7.
  4. ^ Epstein, M. (1936). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-230-27065-7.
  5. ^ "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood" (PDF). Supplement to the London Gazette: 6. 1 January 1936.
  6. ^ a b Hough, 1999, p.120
  7. ^ Hough, 1999, p.151
  8. ^ Lewis, Andrew (2011). The History of Charlton House. 17-7 Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-9569860-0-9.

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