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.