H. T. Ogilvy, Esq.
(1837-1909)
24 July 1861

Volume 4, page 274, sitting number 5167.

[Identified as ‘Mr O’Gilvy’ in the Silvy daybooks, a printed index to all volumes of the daybooks lists the sitter as ‘H.T. Ogilvy.’ This is probably Henry Thomas Ogilvy, later Henry Thomas Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy.]

Henry Thomas Ogilvy was born at Baldovan House in Forfarshire, Scotland, on 3 May 1837, the son of John, 9th Baronet Ogilvy, and Lady Jane née Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk. Though he was born in Scotland, he was baptised at Charlton in Wiltshire on 17 September 1837.

In 1863 he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple (Montrose Standard, 27 November 1863).

He appears on the 1871 census living with his parents at 5 Grafton Street, Mayfair. He gave ‘Barrister at Law’ as his profession.

In 1873 at Perth he was found guilty of salmon poaching in the River Tay. The justices imposed a fine of £2 10s, with £2 10 s costs (Dundee Courier, 22 May 1873).

On 11 September 1888 in the private chapel at Biel House he married Mary Georgina Constance Nisbet-Hamilton, daughter of the Right Honourable Robert Adam Nisbet Hamilton and Lady Mary née Bruce, daughter of the 11th Earl of Kincardine. Their marriage produced no children.

In 1891 and 1901, the couple were living at Dirleton, a village in Forfarshire. On the earlier census Henry described himself as ‘Living on Own Means.’ Ten years later he described himself as a ‘Landed Proprietor.’

Henry Thomas Nisbet-Hamilton-Ogilvy died, aged 72, on 5 December 1909 at Biel House near Prestonkirk in East Lothian, one of the finest houses in Scotland until its demolition in 1952. He left an estate valued at £2970.