HOGARTH, George, b. Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a violinist and composer; a contributor to Edinburgh Courant; a writer on Morning Chronicle, London 1831, afterwards editor; musical critic to Daily News 1846–66 and also to Illust. London News; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the Houseland Narrative 1850–61; author of Musical history, biography and criticism 1835; Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany and England 2 vols. 1851; his musical publications were The musical herald 2 vols. 1846; School music arranged for three voices 1852. d. at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 81 (1870).
HOGARTH, Most Rev. William. b. Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland 25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett 29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw; received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807, ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20 Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college; chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel, Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to death. d. Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. bur. St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 346, 357, 410–13 (1877); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 321–23 (1887).
HOGG, Henry (son of a manufacturer of hosiery). b. Nottingham 1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short poems in the Christian Miscellany, also wrote hymns and carols some of which he set to music; published Poems, Nottingham 1852; Songs for the Times 1856. d. Nottingham 1874. Wylie’s Old and New Nottingham (1853) 247.
HOGG, James. b. Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to Dublin University Mag. and New York Albion; editor and proprietor of New Brunswick Reporter at Fredericton to death; author of Poems. St. John, N.B. 1825; Poems, religious, moral and sentimental. d. Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192.
HOGG, James (son of James Hogg). b. near Edinburgh 26 March 1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, first number 1 March 1845, title changed to The Instructor 1849, afterwards to Titan, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.; publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s Collected Works 14 vols. 1857, new ed. 15 vols. 1862; Churchman’s Family Mag. and London Society projected by his son Feb. 1862. d. The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14 March 1888. H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de Quincey (1877) i 396, ii 1–33, 339; Nicoll’s Landmarks of English literature (1883) 454–5.
HOGG, Sir James Weir, 1 Baronet (eld. son of William Hogg of Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824). b. Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7 Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810; student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814, practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta 1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P. Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11 Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman 1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872. d. 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn under £350,000, 8 July 1876. I.L.N. iv, 268 (1844), portrait; Times 29 May 1876 p. 12.
HOGG, John (2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on Tees, barrister, d. 1840). b. 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec. and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of A catalogue of Sicilian plants 1842; Letters from abroad to a friend at Cambridge 1844, and 40 articles in periodical publications. d. Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv, 298–9.
HOGG, Margaret (dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale, farmer). (m. 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130 from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854. d. Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. C. Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 256, 265–78.
HOGG, Thomas Jefferson (brother of John Hogg 1800–69). b. Norton 24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a publication entitled The necessity of Atheism by Shelley; made acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death 1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr. for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under Shelley’s will in 1844; author of Memoirs of Prince Alesy Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A novel 1813; Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a traveller on the continent 2 vols. 1827; Life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols 1858, never completed. d. 33 Clifton road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862 p. 5; G.M. xiii, 506, 643 (1862).
HOGGAN, John (4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries). b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.