He was born on 22 October 1792 in Great Russell Street, London, where his father Richard Ogle had a good practice as a general practitioner.
He also spent some winter sessions in Edinburgh, studying under Professors Gregory, Duncan, Hamilton, Gordon, Home, and Jamieson.
[1] Ogle delivered the Harveian oration in 1844, and was appointed regius professor of medicine at Oxford by Lord John Russell in 1851, in succession to Kidd.
He died of apoplexy, after an illness of thirty hours, at the vicarage, Old Shoreham, the residence of his son-in-law James Bowling Mozley, on 25 September 1857; he was buried in St Sepulchre's Cemetery in Oxford.
[1] In 1841 appeared Ogle's only publication, A Letter to the Reverend the Warden of Wadham College, on the System of Education pursued at Oxford; with Suggestions for remodelling the Examination Statute.
This pamphlet made the first suggestion of a natural science school at Oxford, established by a statute brought forward in 1851.