Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet
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Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baronet (1790 – 27 May 1876) was an Irish-born businessman, lawyer and politician and Chairman of the East India Company.


Background and education

Hogg was born in Lisburn,
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,
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, the eldest son of William Hogg and his wife Mary, née Dickey. He was educated at Dr Bruce's Academy,
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, and later at
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, where he was elected a Scholar. Hogg was the uncle and patron of General John Nicholson.


Legal and political career

He was called to the Bar and proceeded to
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in 1814, where he obtained a large and lucrative practice. In 1822 he accepted the appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature,
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, which he held until his return to England in 1833. In 1839 he was elected a Director of the
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. He was elected MP for
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in 1834, and represented
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from 1847 to 1857, which seat he lost by two votes at the general election that year. He was the founder of a political dynasty which is still represented by his descendent,
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. Hogg was twice Chairman of the East India Company, and in 1858 when the government of India was transferred to
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he was elected member of the Council of India, until his resignation in 1872, aged eighty two. He was created a Baronet, of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, in 1846, and was offered the posts of
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and the Governorship of
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, both of which he refused. Hogg lived at No 4 Carlton Gardens in Mayfair. Hogg had made himself extremely wealthy.


Family

Hogg married on 26 July 1822, Mary, the daughter of Samuel Swinton of Swinton House, Swinton,
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(see
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). Sir James and Lady Hogg had fourteen children. On his death in 1876, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir James Macnaghten Hogg, who, on 5 July 1887, was created Baron Magheramorne, of Magheramorne in the
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, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, as part of the celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of
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. Hogg's seventh son Quintin Hogg was a merchant and philanthropist and the father of
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and Sir Malcolm Hogg, who also served on the Council of India, and grandfather of
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. Hogg’s title passed around several branches of his descendants but was ultimately inherited by the branch of his second son Charles Swinton Hogg, whose son Ernest Charles Hogg married a member of the
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and he was the father to Sir Arthur Ramsay Hogg, 7th Bt. Hoggs children had largely married into the nobility. His eldest daughter Isabella was the wife of Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron and was the mother of Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth of Edington, who married Lady Fanny Octavia Louise Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and an aunt of Winston Churchill. Isabella Hogg was also of the mother of Dame
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. James Weir Hogg died in 1876, aged 85–86.


See also

*
Hogg Baronets The Hogg Baronetcy, of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 July 1846 for the lawyer and Conservative politician James Hogg. He was Registrar of the Supreme Cour ...
*
John Nicholson (East India Company officer) Brigadier General John Nicholson, (11 December 1822 – 23 September 1857) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who rose to prominence during his career in British India. Born in Ireland, Nicholson moved to the Indian subcontinent at a ...


References

* Obituary, ''
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'', 29 May 1876; pg. 12; Issue 28641; col E. ''"The Late Sir James Hogg".'' * *


External links

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