Norman HOGG

Background

HOGG, Norman was born on March 12, 1938. Parents: the late Norman Hogg Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DL, Doctor of Laws, Justice of the Peace.

Education

Causewayend School; Ruthrieston Secondary School, Aberdeen.

Career

12 March 1938 – 8 October 2008) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Ruthrieston Secondary School in Aberdeen, he worked for Aberdeen Town Council from 1953 to 1967 and then as a District Officer for NALGO from 1967 to 1979. When his constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1983 general election, he was elected for the new Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency, which he represented at Westminster until he stood down at the 1997 general election.

Hogg was created a life peer as Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, of Cumbernauld in the County of North Lanarkshire on 24 September 1997.

He died on 8 October 2008, aged 70, after a long illness.

Membership

48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament. 50th United Kingdom Parliament.

51st United Kingdom Parliament]

At the 1979 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire East, defeating the Scottish National Party"s Margaret Bain.

During his time in the House of Commons he was a member of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Group in 1981-1982, Scottish Labour Whip in 1982-1983, Deputy Chief Opposition Whip from 1983 to 1987, Scottish Affairs Spokesman in 1987-1988, and a Member of the Public Accounts Committee in 1991-1992. He was a Member of the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee from 1999 to 2002 and was Chairman of the Scottish Peers Association from 2002 and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 2002.

Connections

Spouse Elizabeth McCall Christie, 1964.

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Elizabeth McCall Christie