John Ogilvy of Powrie

John Ogilvy of Powrie (died 1609) was a Scottish landowner and political agent. He was known as "Pury Ogilvie" from the family lands. The lands were at Easter Powrie, the ruined Powrie Castle was part of the estate of Wester Powrie. His father, Gilbert Ogilvy, sold Easter Powrie to James Durham of Pitkerro in 1593. The castle at Easter Powrie was later named Wedderburn Castle, and demolished in the 19th-century. John Ogilvy's sister Anne Ogilvy married the courtier Sir Thomas Erskine. He married Elizabeth Scrimgeour, a daughter of Sir James Scrimgeour, Constable of Dundee. His father Gilbert Ogilvy died in 1600, and John wrote to the Bishop of Durham asking for black cloth for mourning clothes. Ogilgvy sent political information to Francis Walsingham, and 1595 pretended to be an agent of James VI to Catholic powers in Europe.