Lawrence Ogilvie (5 July 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a Scottish plant pathologist.
Ogilvie was a UK expert on the diseases of commercially grown vegetables and wheat from the 1930s to the 1960s.
In the 1920s — when agriculture, rather than tourism, was Bermuda's major industry — he identified the virus that had devastated for 30 years the island's lily-bulb crop. He re-established the vital export trade to the USA and increased it to seven-fold the volume of ten years earlier.
In total he wrote over 130 articles about plant diseases in journals of learned societies.
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