Henry Roughton Hogg (9 February 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British amateur

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Biography

Born in

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, he attended

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from 1859-1862, and later studied at

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, where he obtained his BA in 1868 and his MA in 1873. He settled in Australia in 1873 and took up business in

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, founding the firm of Hogg, Robinson & Co. He married in 1881, and in 1900 returned to England and settled in the London district of

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. He became chairman of Sunderland District Electric Tramways ltd and a director of Sanderson, Murray & Elder Ltd. Hogg was a specialist of the spiders of Australia and New Zealand. He was a

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and honorary treasurer of the

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, as well as a fellow of both the

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and

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of London. He bequeathed his collections to the Natural History Museum of London. The genus ''

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'' is named for the author. Hogg, Henry 1923

He died on the 30th November, 1923 and was buried on the eastern side of

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British arachnologists 1846 births 1923 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery People from Stockwell Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Zoological Society of London {{UK-zoologist-stub