Mrs J. W. Ogilvy
(1837-1909)
8 May 1861

Volume 3, page 216, sitting number 3555.

[Identified as ‘Mrs Ogilvy’ in the Silvy daybooks, the following entry is ‘Mr J. W. Ogilvy, presumably this sitter’s husband. This is probably the wife of James Wedderburn Ogilvy.]

Born Catherine Lilias Harriet Ramsay, she was the only daughter of William Ramsay, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow University. On 24 January 1856 she married Captain James Wedderburn Ogilvy of the 25th King’s Own Borderers, youngest son of Peter Wedderburn Ogilvy of Ruthven House, Forfarshire.

Her husband gained the rank of Captain in the 25th Regiment. In 1860 he joined the Perthshire Volunteers, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The couple lived at Rannagulzion House near Blairgowrie in Perthshire. Their marriage did not produce any children.

Colonel Ogivly died, aged 72, in Rome on 28 January 1893.

Mrs Ogilvy died ‘of broncho-pneumonia,’ aged 73, on 22 December 1909, at Bailey’s Hotel, Gloucester Road, London (Clifton Society, 30 December 1909). She left an estate valued at £50,600.