Sir Malcolm Nicholson Hogg (17 January 1883 – 14 February 1948) was an

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and a member of the Council of India from 1920 to 1925. Hogg was the youngest child of the prominent

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merchant Quintin Hogg. He was educated at

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and Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the bankers Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Co in 1904, going out to their

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office the following year and later becoming a partner. He spent much of the rest of his life in

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, serving as deputy chairman and then chairman of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, which he represented on the provincial legislature, and serving on the Viceroy's Council from 1917 to 1919 and the Council of India from 1920 to 1925. He later became joint deputy chairman of the

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. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to India. Hogg's elder brother was

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and his nephew was

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, (9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001), known as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham between 1950 and 1963, at which point he disclaimed his hereditary peerage, was a British barrister and Conservativ ...

. Both served as

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. Hogg's grandfather Sir James Hogg had also served on the Council of India.

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