Record

Code	PX1200
Dates	1863-1924
Person Name	Grant; William Robert Ogilvie (1863-1924); Ornithologist
Surname	Grant
Forenames	William Robert Ogilvie
Epithet	Ornithologist
Activity	Museum staff. Appointed Assistant in the bird section of the Department of Zoology 1882; assistant to Bowdler Sharpe from 1884; Curator of birds from 1909 when Sharpe died; resigned due to ill-health 1918. He had made several expeditions to increase the collections and was successful in raising funds to finance others. He wrote some of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum (1874-1898) and also completed the five volume Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (1901-1912) left unfinished by E W Oates. Tring correspondent Obituary Ibis 1924: 774-780 & portrait.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title
DF/TM/1/43/6	Correspondence G: Grant; Green
DF/TM/1/63/8	Correspondence G: Grant
WP/16/2/23	Letter to William Greenell Wallace from the British Museum (Natural History), London, signed S F Harmer
DF/ZOO/200/64/24	Ogilvie Grant, W R (Ross Shire / Bexhill-on-Sea)
DF/ZOO/200/57/61	Ogilvie Grant, W R (Ross Shire / Bexhill-on-Sea)
DF/ZOO/200/68/18	Ogilvie Grant, W R (Bexhill)
DF/BOT/404/9/11/2	Correspondence: E-H
DF/PUB/516/7/21	Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology, Part 1 general series
DF/ZOO/200/24/142	Grant, [William Robert Ogilvie]
DF/ZOO/230/23/291	Grant, William Ogilvie
DF/TM/1/49/22	Correspondence G: Gorham; Gower & Son; Oglivie Grant
DF/TM/1/13/11	Correspondence G: Grant; Gray; Great Eastern; Greve
DF/ZOO/200/43/153	Grant, Mrs Ogilvie
DF/TM/1/27/14	Correspondence G: Grant; Gray Dawes & Co; Gray; Green
DF/TR/1/1/30/202	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/230/31	Correspondence between George Wyman Bury and William Ogilvie Grant on birds from Aden and the Yemen
DF/ZOO/200/34/108-110	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/TR/1/1/31/548	Sion, Louis
DF/ZOO/200/29/163-165	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/31/176-179	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/35/189-191	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/TM/1/2/10	Correspondence G: Grahams; Grant; Green; Greve
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/790	Verner, W
DF/ZOO/230/4/149	Grant, W R Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/36/170	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/230/3/110-111	Grant, W R Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/23/153-157	Grant, [William Robert Ogilvie]
DF/ZOO/230/5/143	Grant, W R Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/32/158	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
WP/16/2/66	W. R. Ogilvie-Grant to William Greenell Wallace
WP/16/2/22	Letter to William Greenell Wallace from the British Museum (Natural History), London
DF/ZOO/230/22/5	Aden, W M
DF/ZOO/230/25	Letterbook I-N (1905-1914): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/ZOO/230/28	Letterbook U-Z (1901-1914): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/ZOO/230/22	Letterbook A-C (1900-1914): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/ZOO/230/24	Letterbook A-G (1905-1919): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/ZOO/200/42/141-143	Grant, [William Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/19/119-120	Grant, William [Robert Ogilvie]
DF/ZOO/200/39/162	Grant, [William Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/35/105	Cuming
DF/ZOO/200/30/174-175	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/33/105-109	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/39/163	Grant, [William Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/43/152	Grant, [William Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/37/128-130	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/41/136-139	Grant, [William Robert] Ogilvie
DF/PUB/516/7/23	Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology
DF/PUB/516/7/20	Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology, Part 2 nesting-series of British birds
DF/TR/1/1/34/169	Forbes, Henry [Ogg]
DF/TR/1/1/28/238	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/230/23	Letterbook D-H (1900-1914): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/PUB/516/7/14	Guide to the gallery of birds in the Department of Zoology
DF/ZOO/200/66/19	Ogilvie Grant, W R (Bexhill on Sea)
DF/ZOO/200/21/171-173	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/26/132-139	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/200/27/144-149	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/TM/1/34/16	Correspondence G: Gradl; Grant; Gray; Green
DF/ZOO/236/15	International Bird Protection, including Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act, 1921: Papers and Correspondence
DF/ZOO/230/26	Letterbook O-T (1900-1914): Letters to William Ogilvie-Grant and others, mostly concerning the collection of birds
DF/TR/1/1/26/218	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/236/15/5/2	Colonial Office: Destruction of Plumage Birds Correspondence file
DF/PH/2/6/4/2	Staff Group Photograph: Tommaso Salvadori in Egg Corridor with other Museum staff including Richard Bowdler Sharpe (far left) and William Ogilvie Grant (far right)
DF/PH/2/1/3/12	Staff Photographs by Benjamin Stone: William Ogilvie Grant standing in back colonnade
DF/TR/1/1/29/249	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/TR/1/1/24/163	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/ZOO/236/15/3/1/11	Wild Bird Protection file, International Mixed
DF/PH/2/6/5/1	Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/320	Grant, William Robert Ogilvie
DF/ADM/1000/99	Reports and letters 1914
DF/BOT/400/9/58	Ridley, Henry Nicholas (Kew Royal Botanic Gardens)
DF/ZOO/200/47/160-167	Grant, [William Robert Ogilvie]
DF/TM/1/20/12	Correspondence G: Grace; Grandidier; Grant
DF/TM/1/49/21	Correspondence G: Goodfellow
DF/TM/1/22/3	Correspondence O: Oberthür; O'Brien; Ogilvie Grant; Oliver; Olivier
DF/TR/1/1/25/179	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/TR/1/1/27/215	Grant, [William] [Robert] Ogilvie
DF/TR/1/1/28/73	Boger, A J
DF/ZOO/202/1	'Miscellaneous documents': letters, lists, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the department, gathered by Dr A Günther
DF/ZOO/230	Bird Section and Vertebrata Correspondence

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