| Honorific-Prefix: | Colonel The Right Honourable |
| The Earl of Airlie | |
| Birthname: | David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, Lord Ogilvy |
| Birth Date: | 18 July 1893 |
| Birth Place: | Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Airlie Castle, Angus, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Peer, soldier, courtier |
| Parents: | David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie Lady Mabell Gore |
Colonel David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, (18 July 189328 December 1968) was a Scottish peer, soldier, and courtier. He was the father in-law of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.
Airlie was born on 18 July 1893 in Cahir, County Tipperary, Ireland. He was the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 11th Earl of Airlie, and his wife, the former Lady Mabell Gore. He inherited his father's titles in 1900 at the age of six when his father died in the Boer War, and was one of the trainbearers to Mary of Teck at her coronation in 1911.
His paternal grandfather, the 10th Earl of Airlie, died in Denver, Colorado in 1881.[1]
Lord Airlie was educated at Eton and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He became a Scottish representative peer in 1922, was appointed a lord-in-waiting in Stanley Baldwin's government in April 1926, and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 10 May 1929.
In June 1936, he became Lord Lieutenant of Angus. He was a guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.[2] He was elevated to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1938, made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in 1942 and was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 1956.
Lord Airlie owned many racehorses,[3] most notably the steeplechaser, Master Robert, "an eleven-year-old Irish-bred horse" which won the 1924 Grand National in the Earl's colours.[4] [5]
Lord Airlie was commissioned into the 10th Hussars from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1912. He reached the rank of captain in the First World War, in which he won the Military Cross.
He retired from the Regular Army in 1921, but joined the 5th Battalion (4th/5th Battalion from 1922), Black Watch (Territorial Army) as a major. He was lieutenant-colonel commanding from 1924–29, being promoted colonel in 1928. In 1940 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards, reverting at his own request to the rank of major until 1942. He resigned his commission in 1948. He was commandant of the Army Cadet Forces, Scotland in 1943. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by the University of St Andrews in 1958.
On 17 July 1917, Lord Airlie married Lady Alexandra Coke (d. 1984), second daughter of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester, and they had six children.
Lord Airlie died on 28 December 1968, at his home, Airlie Castle, Angus, Scotland.[10]