History

Lt.Colonel Sir John Ogle was buried in the Abbey on 17 March 1640 (location unknown). He was the fifth son of Thomas Ogle (d.1574) and his wife Jane (Welby) and was baptised at Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire in February 1569. He served under Sir Francis Vere in the English army in the Netherlands, where they were aiding the Dutch republic, and was knighted in 1603. During one engagement he lost an eye and wore a black eye patch. John was made Governor of Utrecht and married Elizabeth, daughter of Cornelius de Vries of Dordrecht, and they had four sons and eight daughters. He was an investor in the Virginia Company and also in a project to drain the fenlands of his native county.

Sir John Ogle

Their eldest son Sir John was buried on 26 March 1663 in St John the Baptist’s chapel. He had been knighted in 1646 and died unmarried. His brother Thomas administered to his estate. A modern stone in this chapel records his name and date of death.

A copy of the engraving of Colonel Ogle (illustrated here) can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library.

Further reading

for Colonel Ogle: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004.