Lawrence Ogilvie (5 July 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a Scottish plant pathologist who pioneered the study of wheat, fruit and vegetable diseases in the 20th century.

[10][11][12] On graduating at Cambridge University he was offered to be the first scientifically trained plant pathologist and entomologist to work in either of the then British colonies of Bermuda or Mauritius.

He developed agricultural laws for Bermuda; initiated seed testing; registered local seedsmen; organised the improvement of seed potatoes; established plant quarantine; studied the diseases of celery and other vegetables, maize, vines, avocados, bananas and citrus fruits; and investigated the banana losses from the Mediterranean Fruit Fly.

He was acclaimed in Bermuda for identifying the virus that had increasingly damaged the commercially vital lily-bulb export trade of Lilium longiflorum to the USA since the late 19th century.

[28] He pioneered the European study of commercial fruit[29][30] and particularly vegetable diseases[31][32][33][34][35] with 44 scientific papers between 1929 and 1946 at Long Ashton Research Station.

He wrote the government's official national Diseases of Vegetables[13] practical guide for trade growers: the six editions from 1941 to 1969 (in 1969, retired and aged 71) were full of photos of wilting crops.

[7][36] Ogilvie was influential in the World War II and post-war challenge of feeding Britain: he was the leading British expert[27] on the diseases of cereal crops[37] and vegetables.

By the 1940s, wheat varieties had not been sufficiently bred to resist the rust and other diseases in the damp climate prevalent in Britain and particularly in the south west where he was responsible for advising farmers.

The 1940s varieties of wheat were still unable to resist disease, with long stalks prone to lodging in the heavy rains of the west of England.

[38] He was the international authority on the diseases of wheat that flourished in these British damp, warm conditions – particularly Black Stem Rust[39][40][41][42][43] and Take All.

Doris complemented Lawrence's botanical knowledge, having studied horticulture in Swanley, Kent in England; teaching gardening (and becoming fluent in French) 1921 to 1923 at La Corbière école horticole pour jeunes filles in Estavayer-le-Lac on the east shore of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland; studying from 1924 at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture in Groton, Massachusetts (one of the first colleges to teach women landscape architecture); meeting her future husband while working for the public gardens in Bermuda; and from April 1925 establishing the three-acre garden of Ilaro Court which later became the official residence of the Prime Ministers of Barbados.

The church tower remains (about 100 metres south of the east end of Bristol bus station): the nave was destroyed, with its area now having an office block.

She often coped with their 40-foot-deep well (losing her left thumb in its diesel-engine pump, and nearly dying of then appropriately-called Lockjaw, while then having a small baby): after 28 years in their house, mains water arrived in 1957.

The two built a collection of 1930s to 1970s modern art and enjoyed watercolour painting on holidays, often driving and camping with their son in Scotland and across Europe after WWII.