NEW B.B.C. CHIEF

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 252, 21 July 1938, Page 11

NEW B.B.C. CHIEF

Mr. F. W. Ogilvie Appointed

Director-General

London, July 19.

Mr. Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, president and vice-chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast, has been appointed director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Mr. Ogilvie's new post is believed to be worth £7OOO a year.

Mr. Frederick---Wolff Ogilvie, M.A., was born in 1893 and educated at Clifton College and Bailiol College, Oxford. He took a first-class in Classical Mods, in 1913, and then served with the Bedfordshire Regiment in the war, gaining the rank of captain.

In 1920 he became a Fellow of Trinity College,. Oxford, and lectured at the University until 1920, when he became Professor of Political Economy at Edinburgh University. He left there four years ago to become Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. His qualities as an administrator also won him the post of Director of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce in 1027-30, membership of the Trade Boards, chairmanship of the Joint. Advisory Committee in Adult Education for 'South-east Scotland, membership of the National Advisory Committee on Juvenile Employment, of the Food Council, and of the Economics Committee of the Agricultural Research Council.