OGILVY, William 8th Lord Banff ¹

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  General Notes:

"William, eighth Lord Banff. On 16 March 1774 served heir-male of line and provision special in the barony of Forglen and Whitefield, in the barony of Inchdrewer, to his father Alexander, seventh Lord Banff. Cornet in the Sixth or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons 1773, lieutenant 1778, captain 1780, and quitted the army in 1794, after having served on the Continent under the Duke of York as senior captain in his regiment. He died at Forglen, 4 June 1803, when his estates went to his sister Lady Abercromby, and the Peerage became extinct or dormant. In 1812, and again in 1819, Sir William Ogilvy of Boyne, as the descendant and heir-male of George Ogilvy of Boyne, elder brother of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Dunlugus, the great-grandfather of the first Lord Banff, petitioned the King for the dignity of Banff, but no proceedings seem to have been taken on the claim."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) ¹