Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet

Hogg was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, on 7 September 1790. He was the eldest son of William Hogg and Mary (née Dickey) Hogg. Among his siblings were Clara Hogg, who married Dr. Alexander Jaffrey Nicholson; Rosina Hogg, who married Dr. William Thompson; Charles Hogg; and Lily Anne Maria Hogg, who married Augustus Charles Floyer and James Robert Campbell.

A descendant of Protestant Scottish settlers who had immigrated to Ireland as part of the Ulster Plantation,{{sfn|Allen|2002|pp=22–23}} his paternal grandparents were Edward Hogg and Rose (née O'Neill) Hogg (the daughter of Rev. John O'Neill).{{citation |first=Charles |last=Allen |title='Soldier-Sahibs: The Men who made the North-West Frontier |location= London |publisher=Abacus/Time Warner Books UK |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-349-11456-9}} His maternal grandfather was James Dickey of Dunmore, County Antrim.

Hogg was educated at Dr Bruce's Academy, Belfast, and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar. Hogg was the uncle and patron of General John Nicholson.

He was called to the Bar and proceeded to India in 1814, where he obtained a large and lucrative practice. In 1822 he accepted the appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Calcutta, which he held until his return to England in 1833. In 1839 he was elected a Director of the East India Company.

He was elected MP for Beverley in 1834, and represented Honiton 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, Viscount Hailsham.

Hogg was twice Chairman of the East India Company, and in 1858 when the government of India was transferred to The Crown 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 Judge Advocate General and the Governorship of Bombay, both of which he refused.{{fact|date=February 2025}}

Hogg had made himself extremely wealthy. In 1846, he took a 65 year lease on 16/17 Grosvenor Square and had major changes made, including moving the staircase and adding a stone portico.{{cite web |title=Grosvenor Square: Individual Houses built before 1926 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings). |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol40/pt2/pp117-166 |website=British History Online |publisher=LCC 1980 |access-date=5 January 2025}} However in 1854, Hogg sold the lease and the contents of the Grosvenor Square house and, in 1856, moved to No 4 Carlton Gardens in Mayfair.{{Cite web|title=Carlton House Terrace and Carlton Gardens {{!}} British History Online|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol20/pt3/pp77-87|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}

On 26 July 1822, Hogg married Mary Claudine Swinton, the daughter of and Isabella ({{nee}} Routledge) Swinton and Samuel Swinton of Swinton House, Swinton, Berwickshire. Together, Sir James and Lady Hogg had fourteen children, many of whom married into the nobility, including:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 854.

• Isabella Hogg (1822–1908),{{cite web |title=Isabella (née Hogg), Lady Tweedmouth |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp145334/isabella-nee-hogg-lady-tweedmouth |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}} who married Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, a son of Edward Marjoribanks and Georgiana de Lautour, in 1848.{{cite book |last1=Strong-Boag |first1=Veronica |title=Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens |date=26 February 2015 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4426-1650-9 |page=50 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Liberal_Hearts_and_Coronets/KlH2BgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA50 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Florence Hogg (d. 1916), who married George William Campbell, son of Colin Campbell, 1st of Colgrain and Janet Miller Hamilton, in 1865.{{cite book |title=Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage and Knightage (and Companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1880 |page=229 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Debrett_s_illustrated_baronetage_and_kni/VNsNAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA229 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• James MacNaghten McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne (1823–1890), who married Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Emma Douglas-Pennant, daughter of Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn and Juliana Isabella Mary Dawkins-Pennant (a daughter of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant), in 1857.L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 188.
• Charles Swinton Hogg (1824–1870), who married Harriet Anne Stirling, daughter of Sir Walter Stirling, 2nd Baronet and Lady Caroline Frances Byng (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Strafford), in 1860.{{cite book |title=The Sterling Genealogy |date=1909 |publisher=Grafton Press |page=172 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sterling_Genealogy/REJVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA172 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Mary Rosina Hogg (1829–1913), who married Charles McGarel of Magheramorne, County Antrim, in 1856.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |last2=Burke |first2=Ashworth Peter |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage |date=1910 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |page=1206 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/INwNAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1206 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Fergusson Floyer Hogg (1829–1862) of the Bengal Civil Service; he married Elizabeth Helen Parsons, daughter of Hon. Laurence Parsons (son of the 2nd Earl of Rosse) and Lady Elizabeth Graham-Toler (daughter of the 2nd Earl of Norbury), in 1861.{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing, Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility Under the Gracious Patronage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty |date=1865 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett |page=470 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Peerage_and_Baronetage_of_the_Britis/glRrSQZN5zsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA470 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Annie Claudina Hogg (1831–1921), who never married.{{cite web |title=Hogg, Sir James Weir, first baronet (1790-1876), Director and Chairman of the East India Company |url=https://ukdps.uwestminster-ro.tmp.accesstomemory.org/sir-james-weir-hogg;isaar?sf_culture=en |website=ukdps.uwestminster-ro.tmp.accesstomemory.org |publisher=University of Westminster › Records and Archives |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg (1833–1921), the Police Commissioner of Calcutta; he married Selina Catherine Perry, daughter of Sir Thomas Erskine Perry and Louisa McElkiney,{{cite web |title=Selina Catherine (née Perry), Lady Hogg |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp94076/selina-catherine-nee-perry-lady-hogg |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}} in 1860.{{cite book |last1=College |first1=Winchester |title=Winchester College, 1867-1920 |date=1923 |publisher=P. and G. Wells |page=161 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Winchester_College_1867_1920/ZbowAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA161 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Sir Frederick Russell Hogg (1836–1923), who married Emily Eckford, daughter of Lt.-Gen. James Eckford, in 1857. They divorced in 1873 and he married Harriett Venn Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken, in 1885. Harriett's sister Catherine married Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo.
• Amy Hogg ({{circa|1838}}–1871), who married James William MacNabb, son of James Munro MacNabb of Highfield House, Heckfield, and Jane Mary Campbell, in 1860.{{cite book |title=The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year ... |date=1861 |publisher=Dodsley |page=370 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Annual_Register/84ZWAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA370 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Letters from her son James William Macnabb and his wife Amy (nee Hogg), family news and... |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/b005d75b-910d-4772-9406-56c4ea786480 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=English}}
• Stapleton Cotton Hogg (1839–1918), the Assistant Finance Secretary, India Office;{{cite book |last1=Commission |first1=Great Britain Civil Service |title=Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners |date=1862 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=116 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_Her_Majesty_s_Civil_Service_Co/xidAAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA116 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}} he died unmarried.
• Constance Hogg (1842–1872), who married Francis Augustus Bevan, son of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan and Agneta Elizabeth Yorke (a daughter of Hon. Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke), in 1866.{{cite book |title=Reign of George V: Representative Subjects of the King |date=1913 |publisher=Dod's Peerage |page=1 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reign_of_George_V/x9Pmlx2ODJkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA111-IA1 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}
• Quintin Hogg (1845–1903), a merchant who married Alice Anna Graham, daughter of William Graham and Jane Catherine Lowndes, in 1871.{{cite book |last1=of) |first1=Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle de La Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny Ruvigny and Raineval (9th marquis |last2=Raineval |first2=Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et |title=The Nobilities of Europe |date=1910 |publisher=Melville and Company |page=450 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nobilities_of_Europe/my6agWmV8jIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA450 |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en}}

Sir James died in 1876, aged 85.Obituary, The Times, 29 May 1876; p. 12; Issue 28641; col E. "The Late Sir James Hogg". On his death in 1876, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son James Hogg, who, on 5 July 1887, was created Baron Magheramorne, of Magheramorne in the County of Antrim, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, as part of the celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. 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 Peel family and he was the father to Sir Arthur Ramsay Hogg, 7th Baronet.

Through his eldest daughter Isabella, he was a grandfather of Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth of Edington, who married Lady Fanny Octavia Louise Spencer-Churchill (a daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and an aunt of Winston Churchill), and Dame Ishbel Marjoribanks, who married John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair.

Through his daughter Florence, he was a grandfather of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain.

Through his seventh son Quintin, he was a grandfather of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, and Sir Malcolm Nicholson Hogg, who also served on the Council of India, and great-grandfather of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone.

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