OGILVIE, GEORGE BENEDICT [SSNE 4032]

Surname

OGILVIE

First name

GEORGE BENEDICT

Title/rank

BARON

Nationality

SCOT

Region

DANZIG

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

George Benedict Ogilvie (1644 or 1648-1710, Danzig) was the great grandson of James, Lord Airlie and son of the George Ogilvie who became a Baron in Austria. He reached the rank of Field Marshal. In 1702 he engaged for Russian service at 7,000 roubles a year. In 1704 he joined Peter the Great's army at the siege of Narva and took retreat from Grodno to Kiev. Benedict was certainly still in Russian Service in 1706 but eventually resigned due to rivalry with Russian generals. He was probably the only man in history to hold the miliary rank of Field Marschall for three different crowns - Austria, Russia and Poland-Saxony. According to T. Fischer, George Benedict's son, Carl Hermann was a general commanding in Bohemia and governor of Prague c.1740.

T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902); F. Wernstedt, Kungl. Svea Livgardes Historria, Band IV (Stockholm, 1954), pp.451-453; D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996); Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage (8 vols., 1904-1911), I, p.121.

Service record

RUSSIA, RUSSIAN ARMY

Arrived 1702-01-01, as FIELD MARSHAL

Departed 1706-12-31, as FIELD MARSHAL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

POLAND-SAXONY, POLISH ARMY

Arrived 1707-01-01, as FIELD MARSHAL

Departed 1710-12-31, as FIELD MARSHAL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY