Ponsonby Ogle

Ponsonby Dugmore Ogle (8 December 1855 – 17 December 1902) was a British writer and journalist, and for a time was editor of the The Globe newspaper in London. Later in life he was mistakenly reputed to own a large baronial estate in Massachusetts.

Biography

Ogle was born into a well-known English family in Bishopsteignton, near Newton Abbot, Devon, England, on 8 December 1855. He was the second son of Rev. William Reynolds Ogle, Vicar of Bishopsteignton, and had American ancestry on his mother's side. He was educated at Winchester College from 1869, then New College, Oxford from 1876 to 1879, graduating with a BA degree. He worked as private secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1881.

The Globe was the oldest of the London evening newspapers, having been founded in 1803, and in 1871 Captain George C. H. Armstrong (1836–1907) became editor. Ogle took over the role from him in 1886, and was editor until Mr Algernon Locker took control in 1891. During his editorship, Ogle published four short articles by the young Walter Shaw Sparrow, who was later to become a popular and prolific writer.