Francis Grant Ogilvie

Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie CB (8 August 1858 – 14 December 1930) was a Scottish educator, museum director, and scientist.

Ogilvie was born in Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, the eldest son of the Reverend Alexander Ogilvie, headmaster of Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and his wife, Maria Matilda Nicoll.

His younger sister, Dame Maria Gordon, became an eminent scientist in the fields of geology and palaeontology.

He was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and University of Aberdeen (MA, 1879). After graduating, he "came to Edinburgh where in addition to Engineering he devoted much attention to Natural Science. He was a favourite pupil of Sir Archibald Geikie and a friend of Sir John Murray of Challenger fame, and throughout his life he was an ardent student of Physical Geology, and in particular of the relation of geology to scenery and the economic applications of geological investigations" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh).

He served as Assistant Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, 1880-1881, and lectured in applied mathematics and steam at the Mechanics Institute, Aberdeen, 1880-1882, graduating Bachelor of Science of the University of Edinburgh in 1881.

In May 1882, he was appointed science master at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, where he remained for four years before being appointed Principal of Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh in May 1886. In addition, in 1887, he commenced work as Professor of Applied Physics at the college. Ogilvie’s "work for the Heriot-Watt College gave a great stimulus to technological education, and many men [sic] who subsequently filled important posts were trained in that school. He knew most of his students personally, and in after life followed their careers with great interest" (Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh).

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