Hoggs in history
George Alfred Hogg - Lookout on the Titanic
Ima Hogg - philanthropist and patron of the arts
James Hogg - poet
James Stephen Hogg - Governor of Texas
Moses Drury Hoge - clergyman, Virginia
Quintin Hogg - philanthropist/social reformer
Thomas Jefferson Hogg - biographer of Shelley
William Hogg - Merchant in Edinburgh who made Banking history
Nidhogg - mythical creature
born in Hull on 7 March 1883
Hogg was a lookout [not one of 'the' lookouts] who got away in lifeboat #7, starboard. This was the first boat away, at 12:45, 15th April - a little over an hour after the collision.
(from the book - A Night to Rmember -thanks to Dan Clements)Links to more information about George Alfred Hogg
Encyclopedia Titanica
Testimony of Mr. George A. Hogg
Additional Testimony of Messrs. Hogg, Perkis & Symons
1882 - 1975
Miss Ima was involved in a wide range of philanthropic projects.
In 1929 she founded the Houston Child Guidance Center, an agency to provide therapy and counseling for disturbed children and their families.
In 1940, with a bequest from her brother Will, who haddied in 1930, she established the Hogg Foundation for Mental Hygiene, which later became the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas. In 1943 Miss Hogg, a lifelong Democrat, won an election to the Houston school board, where she worked to establish symphony concerts for schoolchildren, to get equal pay for teachers regardless of sex or race, and to set up a painting-to-music program in the public schools. In 1946 she again became president of the Houston Symphony Society, a post she held until 1956, and in 1948 she became the first woman president of the Philosophical Society of Texas.
Since the 1920s she had been studying and collecting early American art and antiques, and in 1966 she presented her collection and Bayou Bend, the River Oaks mansion she and her brothers had built in 1927, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The Bayou Bend Collection, recognized as one of the finest of its kind, draws thousands of visitors each year.
(from: The New Handbook of Texas - Miss Ima Hogg)
James Hogg The Ettrick Shepherd Poet
The house that James Hogg was born in was on St. Mary's loch in Ettrick, Selkirkshire. Unfortunately the house is no longer there but the above statue of Hogg on the site.
1770, Ettrick, Selkirkshire - 21 November 1835
Poet known as the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg spent most of his youth and manhood as a shepherd and was almost entirely self education. He had learned, at his mother's knee, the great oral tradition of ballads and folklore of the Borders. And her father, "the far-famed Will O'Phaup" was reputed to have been the last man to converse with the fairies.
His talent for writing was discovered by Sir Walter Scott, who was then the sheriff of Selkirk. It is said that James Hogg and his mother supplied Sir Walter Scott with material for Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"
The Scottish poet, James Hogg was b. 9 Dec 1770 to Robert Hogg and Margaret Laidlaw. He married Margaret Phillips 20 Apr 1820 in Selkirk, Scotland. They had five children, all born in Selkirk:
James Robert, b. 28 Apr 1821
Janet Phillips, b. 9 Jun 1823
Margaret Lydia, b. 18 Jan 1825
Harriot Sidney, b. 18 Dec 1827
Mary Gray, b. 21 Aug 1831Scottish Pastorals (1801); The Mountain Bard (1807); The Forest Minstrel (1810); The Queen's Wake (1813); The Pilgrims of the Sun (1815); Mador of the Moor (1816); The Poetic Mirror (1816); The Brownie of Bodsbeck (1818); ed., The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-21); The Poetical Works of James Hogg (1822); The Three Perils of Man (1822); The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824); Queen Hynde (1825); Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd (1831); A Queer Book (1832); Altrive Tales (1834); The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott (1834).
Links to sites about James HoggAikwood Tower - on the ground floor of this magnificent historical building is a museum dedicated to James Hogg
Slainte - James HoggTHE BORDER COLLIE MUSEUM - JAMES HOGG, THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD
Part I: Shepherd & Farmer
Part II: Of Shepherd's Dogs
Part III: A Tribute To Hogg A Century After His DeathEXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG by William Wordsworth A Boy's Song by James Hogg - Oxford Book of English Verse Kilmeny by James Hogg - Oxford Book of English Verse Charlie is my darlin - Lyrics by James Hogg and Carolina, Lady Nairne.
James s Hogg Governor of Texas
James S. Hogg (1851-1906)
First texas born Governor. Even among larger-than-life Texans, Hogg was an imposing figure. At six feet two inches and two hundred and eighty five pounds, the feisty governor was a popular advocate of the common citizen and did much to strengthen public respect for law enforcement in general. He sponsored anti-trust legislation and helped establish the powerful Railroad Commission during his tenure as governor. from http://www.lsjunction.com/people/hogg.htm
Links to sites about James S. Hogg
Moses Drury Hogeborn in 1819 and died in 1899.
American Presbyterian clergyman of Virginia
I haven't been able to find much about Rev. Hoge. I did find some references to his father Samuel Davies Hoge and his grandfather Mose Hoge at the following website.
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born 14 February 1845, London, England - died 17 January 1903
Philanthropist, social reformer, and founder of the Polytechnic which became a model for later social and educational centres for underprivileged youth. For more than three decades, Hogg and his wife devoted their time and fortune to work among poor young people in London. (from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
born 24 May, 1792, Norton, Durham - died 27 August, 1862
friend and biographer of Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was dismissed in 1811 from Oxford for defending Shelley's atheism. Authorized by Mary Shelley to write a life of her husband, Hogg issued (1858) the first two volumes, which were biased, inaccurate, and overly devoted to incidents in Hogg's own life; the family eventually withdrew the materials from his use. His account of Shelley at Oxford, written earlier, was published separately in 1904 as Shelley at Oxford. Throughout his life Hogg was a successful lawyer.
(from http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE024148.html)
The Life of Shelley, 2vol (1858); The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813; Two Hundred and Nine Days (1827).1728 - On 31 May, 1728, the Royal Bank of Scotland invents the overdraft, one of the most versatile and maginative innovations in modern banking. It allows a William Hogg, merchant in the High Street Edinburgh, to take out of his account up to £1000 (£65,449 in today's value) more than he has in it.
(from: History of Scottish Banks and Bank Notes - Look under Innovationanother link
Royal Bank of Scotland
n Norse myth, Nidhogg ("tearer of corpses") is a monstrous serpent that gnaws perpetually at the deepest root of the World Tree Yggdrasil, threatening to destroy it. This serpent is always bickering with the eagle that houses in the top of the tree. It lies on Nastrond in Niflheim, where it also eats corpses to sustain itself. Nidhogg is not the only serpent whose task it is to destroy the World Tree.
(from: Encyclopaedia Mythica)Take a look at the following webpage. It gives good background on this myth.
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