Scottish Surnames, Ogg to Owen

OGG, Sir William G. (1891-) of Cults, Aberdeenshire. Director of Rothmanstead Experimental Station (1943-58). Sometime foreign member of the All-union Academy of Agricultural Science in the USSR.

OGILBY, John (1600-76) of Edinburgh. Topographer, printer and map maker. Surveyor of the gutted sites after the Great Fire of London (1666). His more important maps and atlases included Africa (1670) and Asia (1673). His road atlas of Gt. Britain was unfinished (1675)

OGILVIE, Lady Mary, daughter of the late Prof. A. Macaulay of Glasgow. Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford (1953-).

OGILVY
Local: from the Barony of Ogilvy in Forfarshire. The family are descended from Gilbert, brother of Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, who obtained from William the Lion a grant of the Barony of Ogilvy.

Ogilvy, Angus (1928-). Company Director. Married HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent. Pres., Scottish Wild Life Trust, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Brit. Rheumatism and Arthritis Assoc., Chairman Nat. Assoc. of Youth Clubs, etc.

OGLE
Local; from the Ogle Castle in Northumber land. The family are descended from Robert Ogle of Ogle, temp. Edward III.

OLIPHANT
An elephant, they bear two elephants rampant for supporters, whence probably the name. The family are descended from Sir Walter Oliphant, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Bruce.

OLIVER
Peace.

ORCHARD
A collection of fruit trees.

ORCHARDSON, Sir William Quiller (1832-1910) of Edinburgh. Painter of portraits and industrial social and historical subjects. His Napoleon on board the Bellerophon (1880) is in the Tate Gallery. Elected RA in 1877.

ORD
Point, edge.

ORME
An elm tree.

ORR
Local: from the village of Orr in Kircudbrightshire.

Orr, Robin (1909-) of Brechin. Composer. Professor of Music, Cambridge University. Fellow of St John's College (1965-).

OSWALD
A steward.

Oswald, Richard (1704-84) of Watten, Caithness. Appointed Plenipotentiary for Great Britain in 1782 and sent to Paris where he concluded a peace treaty with the USA which he cosigned with Benjamin Franklin. He then became known as 'Richard the Peacemaker'.

OWEN, Robert Dale (1801-77) of Glasgow. Went to America in 1825 to help in the New Harmony colony. Edited the Free Inquirer in New York, was a member of the Indiana legislature and entered Congress in 1843. Was Minister at Naples (1853-58) and an abolitionist and spiritualist.

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