Career
They founded a society for obtaining free access to English museums, public edifices, and works of art, of which the Duke of Sussex was president, Joseph Hume chairman of committees, and George Foggo honorary secretary. Foggo published in 1844 a catalogue of the pictures of the National Gallery, with critical remarks, the first attempt to make the collection intelligible to the public. He was associated with other plans for the advancement of art, and was a man of great energy.
He also published in 1853 the Adventures of Sir J. Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.
He died in London 26 September 1869, aged 76.