William Ogle (physician, classicist and statistician)


William Ogle BA DM FRCP was an English physician and classicist who became registrar-general of the General Register Office.
After attending Rugby School Ogle took a BA in Natural Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He lectured in physiology at St George's Hospital after which he was appointed to various other posts before retiring from there and working at the General Register Office, where he was eventually appointed registrar-general.
After retirement he made use of his classical Greek in the translation of various works of Aristotle, notably The Parts of Animals a copy of which he presented to Charles Darwin.