David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie

Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC (18 July 1893 – 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, the former Lady Mabell Gore.

[1] He became a Scottish representative peer in 1922, was appointed a lord-in-waiting in Stanley Baldwin's government in April 1926, and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 10 May 1929.

Lord Airlie owned many racehorses,[3] most notably the steeplechaser, Master Robert, "an eleven-year-old Irish-bred horse" which won the 1924 Grand National in the Earl's colours.

In 1940 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards, reverting at his own request to the rank of major until 1942.

Portrait of the Countess of Airlie, by Philip de László , 1935