(July 14, 1887 – April 15, 1971)[1] was an accomplished British surgeon, medical essayist, and yachtsman.

[2] Ogilvie was born in Valparaiso, on 14 July 1887 during his British father's engineering career in Chile.

[3] A great deal of Ogilvie's adult life was spent in the British Army, where he served in the Balkan Wars in 1912, the first world war in France, and finally as a consulting surgeon with the Middle East and East Africa Forces in the second world war, attaining the rank of Major-General and KBE.

He wrote the foreword for Richard Mackarness' book Eat Fat and Grow Slim in 1958.

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