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{{Short description|British business executive}}

''For the early aviation pioneer, see [[Alec Ogilvie]].''

'''Sir Alec Drummond Ogilvie''' (1913–1997)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2 December 1997|title=Obituary: Sir Alec Ogilvie|page=21|work=[[The Times]]|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1997UKEnglish/Dec%2002%201997%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2366062%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n19/mode/2up|via=The Internet Archive}}</ref> was a British business executive.

Ogilvie spent his childhood in [[Bengal]], India, where his father, Sir George Ogilvie, was a civil servant.<ref name=":0" /> Ogilvie was the fifth generation in his family to have lived in India.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Jones|first=Stephanie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKiuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26|title=Merchants of the Raj: British Managing Agency Houses in Calcutta Yesterday and Today|date=1992-06-18|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-12538-8|pages=26|language=en}}</ref>

Educated in [[Cheltenham College]] and trained as an accountant in Glasgow,<ref name=":1" /> Ogilvie worked in London for three years, before returning to India in 1935 and joining the [[Andrew Yule]] company in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] (now Kolkata).<ref name=":0" /> Ogilvie became the chairman of Andrew Yule, and also served as president of the [[Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=THE BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY|url=https://bengalchamber.com/agm14/pages/president.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=bengalchamber.com}}</ref> and president of the [[Associated Chambers of Commerce|Associated Chambers of Commerce. (ASSOCHAM)]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghatak|first=Aditi Roy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMEVAQAAMAAJ|title=Partnership for Progress: The ASSOCHAM Story, 1920–1995|date=1995|publisher=Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India|pages=113|language=en}}</ref>

Ogilvie was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] for his services to British business interests in India in 1965.<ref name=":0" /> He later returned to Britain and served as chairman of Powell Duffryn (now known as [[PD Ports]]).<ref name=":0" />

During the Second World War, Ogilvie had joined the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)|2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles]] and was held prisoner of war in Singapore, in [[Changi Prison|Changi prison]].<ref name=":0" />

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