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Family and Education
b. 11 July 1663, 2nd s. of James Ogilvy, 3rd earl of Findlater [S], and Anna, da. of Hugh Montgomerie, 7th earl of Eglinton [S]; bro. of Hon. Patrick Ogilvy‡. educ. privately (Patrick Innes); Aberdeen Univ. (Marischal Coll.) 1675, MA 1681; travelled abroad (Holland) 1682–3; adv. 16 Jan. 1685. m. June 1688, Anne (d. 14 Aug. 1708), da. of Sir William Dunbar, of Durn House, Portsoy, Banff, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). Kntd. 1689; KT 17 Feb.1704. d. 15 Aug. 1730. Seafield Corresp. xiv–xxi, 42; Recs. Marischal Coll. (Spalding Club), ii. 246, 247, 249; Scot. Rec. Soc. lxxvi. 166.
Offices Held

King’s solicitor [S] 1693 – 96; commr. auditing accts. of treasury [S] 1695, exch. [S] 1696, 1698, justiciary for Highlands [S] 1697, visitation univs. [S] 1697, treasury [S] 1702 – 07, union with England 1702 – 03, 1706, equivalent 1707; jt. sec. of state [S] 1696 – 1702, 1704 – 05; PC [S] 1696 – 1708; pres. of parl. [S] 1698; ld. high commr. gen. assembly Ch. of Scotland 1700, 1703, 1724, 1727; ld. chan. [S] 1702 – 04, 1705 – 08; ld. treas. [S] 1705 – 07; PC 1707 – 14; ld. chief baron of exch. [S] Mar. – Dec. 1708; kpr. gt. seal [S] 1713–14. Seafield Corresp. 97, 181–4, 256, 260; CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 445; CSP Dom. 1696, pp. 35, 168, 171, 195; CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 79, 538; CSP Dom. 1698, pp. 323, 405, 407; CSP Dom. 1702–3, pp. 461, 474; HMC Laing, ii. 114; CTB, 1706–7, p. 445; CTB, xxii. 119, 369; Post Man, 17–19 Oct. 1704; TNA, SP 54/3/23.

Commissary, Edinburgh, 1689 – 91; burgess, Edinburgh 1698; sheriff, Banff 1692–?1714. CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 275; CSP Dom. 1691–2, pp. 44, 261, 535; CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 467; Scot. Rec. Soc. lix. 444; Seafield Corresp. 81, 94.

FRS 1698.

Parlimentarian
OGILVY, James (1663-1730)
Associated with: Cullen House, Banff; Pall Mall, Westminster.CTB, xvi. 418; London Jnl. xviii. 27; NAS, GD248/561/49/6, Bellenden to Findlater, 3 Jan. 1713.;
Likenesses

oil on canvas by J.B. De Medina, 1695, National Galleries of Scotland, PG1064; oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, c.1700, R. Coll. of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

Author
Townend, Graham
Hayton, David
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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