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03. Chancellor to the Order of the Thistle
Arms: Argent a Lion passant guardant Gules crowned with an Imperial Crown and collared with an open one proper

David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, KT, GVCO, PC, JP was born in 1926. The Earldom of Airlie is in the Peerage of Scotland and was awarded in 1639. The Earl is one of the very few besides Queen Elizabeth II who attended the Coronation of George VI still alive at age 92 at this writing.

The Earl of Airlie was appointed as Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle in 2007.

He is a Knight of the Thistle having been appointed to the Order in 1985. The Earl of Airlie is the second senior Knight of the Thistle after the Earl of Elgin who was appointed in 1981.

The artwork is a rendition by John Hamilton Gaylor

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