William Heneage Ogilvie

Major General Sir William Heneage Ogilvie K.B.E., M.Ch., F.R.C.S. (July 14, 1887 – April 15, 1971) was an accomplished British surgeon, medical essayist, and yachtsman.

Early life

Ogilvie was born in Valparaíso, on 14 July 1887 during his British father's engineering career in Chile. In 1910, he attended Clifton College and New College, Oxford pursuing physiology.

Later life

A great deal of Ogilvie's adult life was spent in the British Army, where he served in the Balkan Wars in 1912, the first world war in France, and finally as a consulting surgeon with the Middle East and East Africa Forces in the second world war, attaining the rank of Major-General and KBE. The Ogilvie syndrome, an acute illness affecting the colon, is named after Ogilvie, who first reported it in 1948.

Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth is dedicated 'to Heneage Ogilvie'.

Personal life

Ogilvie married Vere Quitter in 1915 and raised three children.