OGILVIE, JAMES [SSNE 1562]

Surname

OGILVIE, OGILVY

First name

JAMES

Title/rank

AMBASSADOR, 5th or 6th LORD OGILVIE OF AIRLIE

Nationality

SCOT

Region

AIRLIE, ANGUS

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

James Ogilvie served as an ambassador with Peter Young [SSNE 1609] to Christian IV's coronation 1596. Ogilvie died in 1605.

Sources: Danish Rigsarkiv TKUA Skotland A II 4, 30/7/1596; Dictionary of National Biography, XLII, pp.26-7; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), p.72.

Service record

SCOTLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY

Arrived 1596-01-01

Departed 1596-12-31

Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY