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 | | In 1392 Sir Walter Ogilvy of Wester Powrie and Auchterhouse, sheriff of Angus, was slain with sixty of his followers, at Gasklune near Blairgowrie, in endeavouring to repel an incursion of the clan Donnochy, or sons of Duncan (the clan now called Robertson) who had burst down upon the low country from the Grampian mountains. |
 | | The elder son, Sir John Ogilvy, knight; of Lintrathen, was succeeded by his eldest son Sir James Ogilvy of Aislie, ambassador from Scotland to Denmark in 1491. |
 | | James, the seventh lord Ogilvy, for his loyalty and faithful services to Charles I., was on the 2d April, 1639, created earl of AIRLIE, ALYTH, and LIN— TRATHEN, He distinguished himself in the campaigns of the marquis of Montrose, in particular at the battle of Kilsyth in 1645. |
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