Francis Grant Ogilvie

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

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.

[12] In 1920, he laid down his appointments under the Board of Education with the Science and Geological Museums, commencing work instead, in November 1920, as principal assistant secretary in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

He did, however, continue to serve as chairman of the Geological Survey Board from 1920 to 1930, as a member of the Senate of the University of London, from 1925 to 1929, and as president of the Museums Association in 1927-1928.

He relinquished his Army commission on ceasing to be employed on military duties, and was granted the honorary rank of Major, with effect from 22 July 1918.

Ardent, sincere, and painstaking, he had a very wide knowledge of men and affairs, and was a very prudent and sagacious counsellor, inclined to caution but never despondent or pessimistic.

The high positions to which he attained showed how much his administrative ability was esteemed; and those who were brought into contact with him in the course of official work never failed to appreciate the breadth of his views, his mastery of detail, and his sympathy with all educational advances."

"Throughout his life [Ogilvie] was essentially an 'open-air' man, intensely fond of a tramp on the Braemar Hills or the woodlands of Surrey, and though his opportunities were limited, his geological studies continued till the close of his life; in fact he was engaged in mapping the Cretaceous rocks around Shere in Surrey, where he lived, during his years of retirement after active service in official posts.