David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th and 7th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC (18 July 1893, County Tipperary – 28 December 1968) was a Scottish peer, soldier and courtier.

He was the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie and his wife, Mabell, Countess of Airlie. He inherited his father's titles in 1900 and was one of the trainbearers to Mary of Teck at her coronation in 1911. He became a Representative Peer for Scotland in 1922, was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in Stanley Baldwin's government in 1926 and was made KCVO in 1929.

In 1937, he became Lord Lieutenant of Angus and was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth in 1937. As a senior member of the royal household, he was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1938, he was elevated to GCVO, made a Knight of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956.

Marriage
On 17 July 1917, Lord Airlie married Lady Alexandra Coke (the second daughter of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester) and they had six children:
 * David George Coke Patrick, styled Lord Ogilvy, later 13th/8th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926)
 * Hon. Angus James Bruce (1928–2004), married Princess Alexandra of Kent
 * Hon. James Donald Diarmid (b. 1934), married Caroline, daughter of the 9th Earl of Jersey
 * Lady (Victoria) Jean Marjorie Mabell (1918–2004), married Alexander Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd.
 * Lady Margaret Helen Isla Marion (b. 1920), married Iain Tennant
 * Lady Griselda Davina Roberta (1924–1977), married Peter Edward Gerald Balfour

Military career
Lord Airlie was commissioned into the 10th Hussars from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1912. He reached the rank of Captain in the First World War, in which he won the Military Cross.

He retired from the Regular Army in 1921, but joined the 5th Battalion (4th/5th Battalion from 1922), Black Watch (Territorial Army) as a Major. He was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding from 1924 to 1929, being promoted Colonel in 1928. In 1940 he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Guards, reverting at his own request to the rank of Major until 1942. He resigned his commission in 1948. He was Commandant of the Army Cadet Forces, Scotland in 1943. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D) by St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, in 1958.

Sporting pursuits
Lord Airlie owned many racehorses, most notably the steeplechaser, Master Robert, which won the 1924 Grand National in the Earl's colours.