Quotes:Ogilvie, John

Zirkoff, Boris

Ogilvie, John. English lexicographer, b. in parish of Marnoch, Banffshire, April 17, 1797; d. of typhoid fever at Aberdeen, 21 Nov., 1867. Son of farmers; elementary educ. at home and parish school; worked as ploughman until 21. Leg amputated above knee, 1818. Taught in two subscription schools. Prepared for University with the help of a schoolmaster; entered Marischal College, Aberdeen, Oct., 1824. Engaged in private tuition for sake of income. Graduated as M.A., 1828. Tutoring until 1831. Appointed mathem. master in Gordon’s Hospital, Aberdeen. Marischal Coll, conferred on him honorary LL.D., 1848. Retained mastership until 1859. Messrs. Blackie engaged him, 1838, to rev. and enlarge Webster’s English Dict., which resulted in the *Imperial Dictionary, English, Technical and Scientific, issued in parts snee 1847 onward, and publ. complete, 1850, with a Supplement, 1855. He also published several other important Dictionaries.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 442