David Mackenzie Ogilvy, CBE, (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999), was an advertising executive. He has often been called "The Father of Advertising." In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry."
David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born on June 23, 1911 at West Horsley, Surrey in England. His mother, Dorothy Blow Fairfield, was Irish. His father, Francis John Longley Ogilvy (c. 1867 - 1943) was a Gaelic-speaking Highl...
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David Mackenzie Ogilvy, CBE, (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999), was an advertising executive. He has often been called "The Father of Advertising." In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry."
David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born on June 23, 1911 at West Horsley, Surrey in England. His mother, Dorothy Blow Fairfield, was Irish. His father, Francis John Longley Ogilvy (c. 1867 - 1943) was a Gaelic-speaking Highlander from Scotland who was a classics scholar and a financial broker. Ogilvy attended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, on reduced fees because of his father's straitened circumstances and won a scholarship at age thirteen to Fettes College, in Edinburgh. In 1929, he again won a scholarship, this time in History to Christ Church, Oxford.
Without the scholarships, Ogilvy would not have been able to attend Fettes or Oxford University because his father's business was badly hit by the depression of the mid-1920s. His studies were not successful,...
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