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Ogilvie, Alan Grant, only son of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie, C.B., LL.D., of South Kensington, by Sarah, daughter of Alexander Ogston Gill, of Fairfield, Aberdeenshire; b. July 3, 1887; adm. from George Watson's Coll. Edinburgh April 30, 1903 (A); left July 1906; Magd. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1913; B.Sc. 1915; Albert Kahn Travelling Fellow 1914-5; chief of the Hispanic-American Division of the American Geographical Society, New York, 1920-3; Lecturer in Geography, Edinburgh Univ. 1923-4; Reader 1924-31; Professor from 1931; hon. sec. of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1925-41 and president 1946-50; president of the Institute of British Geographers 1951-2; awarded the Cuthbert Peek Grant of the Royal Geographical Society 1915 and the Milne Edwards Medal of the Paris Geographical Society 1923; F.R.S.E.; 2nd Lieut. 7th London Brigade R.F.A. Aug. 21, 1911; Lieut. Aug. 26, 1914; Capt. June 1, 1916; served in France, the Dardanelles, and Salonika; mentioned in despatches; M.B.E. June 7, 1918; O.B.E. June 3, 1919; Serbian Order of White Eagle 1917; author of Geography of the Central Andes (1922), and other works; m. Jan. 23, 1919, Evelyn Decima, youngest daughter of the Rev. George Edward Willes, Rector of Calverton, Bucks; d. Feb. 10, 1954.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963