Reverend William Paton Ogilvie (30 July 1854 - July 1906) was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman. He was born in Broughty Ferry near Dundee, the son of the Reverend Duncan Ogilvie, the minister of the Broughty Ferry United Presbyterian churches there. William's first school was Keir Street Academy, Edinburgh (now the car park of the Edinburgh College of Art). He was “dux” and gold medalist at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and achieved honours in Classics at Edinburgh University in 1875. He was the Presbyterian minister in Rosehearty, near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire from 6 July 1881 to his death of pneumonia following a chill on a Sunday School outing in July 1906. The new church and manse in Pitsligo Street, Rosehearty were built during his tenure. He was appointed in 1892 as the Scottish Synod examiner in New Testament Literature and Exegesis (critical explanation).
In July 1891, William married Elizabeth Lawrence (born 1859 at Inverallochy, near Fraserburgh). After his death, she moved with their two sons Alan and Lawrence to 70 Gladstone Place, Aberdeen when widowed in 1906, and lived there until she died in the 1930s.
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