Ponsonby Ogle

Ponsonby Ogle
Born	8 December 1855 Bishopsteignton, Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Died	17 December 1902 Milan, Italy
Nationality	British
Occupation	Writer, journalist and editor

Ponsonby Dugmore Ogle (8 December 1855 – 17 December 1902) was a British writer and journalist, and for a time was editor of the The Globe newspaper in London. Later in life he was mistakenly reputed to own a large baronial estate in Massachusetts.

Ogle was born into a well-known English family in Bishopsteignton, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England, on 8 December 1855. He was the second son of Rev. William Reynolds Ogle, Vicar of Bishopsteignton, and had American ancestry on his mother's side. He was educated at Winchester College from 1869, then New College, Oxford from 1876 to 1879, graduating with a BA degree. He worked as private secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1881.

The Globe was the oldest of the London evening newspapers, having been founded in 1803, and in 1871 Captain George C. H. Armstrong (1836–1907) became editor. Ogle took over the role from him in 1886, and was editor until Mr Algernon Locker took control in 1891. During his editorship, Ogle published four short articles by the young Walter Shaw Sparrow, who was later to become a popular and prolific writer.

On 9 July 1891 he married Miss Kate Angeline Rand (1862–1950) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the second daughter of Alonzo Cooper Rand. They spent some time in Minneapolis during October 1891 then stayed with friends in New Haven, Connecticut, returning to Minneapolis in mid-December. Ogle was among those injured in a serious railroad accident at Lima, Ohio on Wednesday 16 December, when a derailment of his train at speed caused four fatalities and numerous injuries, with Ogle suffering cuts to the head.

Ogle and his wife visited America again in 1897, visiting Coronado, California in January and San Francisco at the beginning of March. They sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii on 4 March and spent some time there.

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