Education
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the bankers Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Company in 1904, going out to their Bombay office the following year and later becoming a partner.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the bankers Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Company in 1904, going out to their Bombay office the following year and later becoming a partner.
Hogg was the youngest child of the prominent London merchant Quintin Hogg. He spent much of the rest of his life in India, 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 Westminster Bank.
He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to India.
Both served as Lord Chancellor. Hogg"s grandfather Sir James Hogg had also served on the Council of India.