William Gammie Ogg

Sir William Gammie Ogg FRSE LLD (1891–1979) was a Scottish horticultural scientist and Director of Rothamsted Experimental Station[1][2][3] He was born at Craigbank Farm in Peterculter near Aberdeen, Scotland on 2 November 1891 the son of James Ogg and his wife, Janet Gammie.

In the First World War he worked as a chemist at the explosives factory at Oldbury and at Greetland in Yorkshire.

After the war, in 1924, he began working as an Advisory Officer at the East Of Scotland College of Agriculture.

His proposers were Alexander Lauder, Sir James Walker, George Barger and Ralph Allan Sampson.

He retired in 1958 and died at Arnhall in Edzell, Angus on 25 September 1979.