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Code	DS/UK/254
Name	Ogilvie; Sir; Francis Grant (1858-1930); Knight; museum director and civil servant
Dates and Places	b. 8 Aug 1858, Monymusk, Aberdeenshire; d. 14 Dec 1930, Edinburgh
Surname	Ogilvie
Forenames	Francis Grant
History	In 1900 Ogilvie was appointed Director of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, which passed under the Scottish Education Department in 1901. In February 1903 he was transferred to London as Principal Assistant Secretary (Technology and Higher Education in Science and Art) under the Board of Education. In 1910 he was re-assigned as Secretary of the Board for the Science Museum, South Kensington, the Geological Museum and the Geological Survey. Director of the Science Museum, 1911-1920.
Rules	International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Source	wikipedia; obituary in NATURE 127, 64 (1931) [https://www.nature.com/articles/127064a0.pdf]

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MCR/1/1/42	South Kensington Museum: Science and Art Department	17 Dec 1855-1912

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