William Robert Ogilvie-Grant

George Henry Essex Ogilvy-Grant, of Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Scotland, of the 42nd Highlanders, sixth son of Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield,[1] and daughter of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet.

Ogilvie-Grant was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he studied zoology and anatomy.

He studied ichthyology under Albert C. L. G. Günther, and in 1885 he was put in temporary charge of the Ornithological Section under Richard Bowdler Sharpe's[2] visit to India.

[4] He also succeeded Bowdler Sharpe as editor of the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, a post he held from 1904 to 1914.

Ogilvie-Grant made many collecting trips, especially to Socotra, Madeira, and the Canary Islands.