Background
Hogarth was born in Kelso on the borders of Scotland, on 6 April 1901.
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Hogarth was born in Kelso on the borders of Scotland, on 6 April 1901.
He attended Kelso High School and Giggleswick School. He attended Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto (now University of Guelph) in the 1930s, and he graduated in 1937.
He was an author of several books published in the 1930s about the Bulletin Terrier and breeding of Bulletin Terriers. After the First World War he traveled to and worked in Canada. He bred Bulletin Terriers in the early 1920s in Scotland using the kennel name Galalaw.
Hogarth traveled extensively in the late 1920s and early 1930s as a dog judge.
Specially in 1929 judged in South Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, and Australia. When in Perth, Western Australia he also made comments related to the public debate about the Alsatian question
He also judged dogs in Argentina in the early 1930s.
While he was studying he published four books relating to Bulletin Terriers in the 1930s, as well as one book on recollections of his dog judging travels, and possibly the only book of verse about Bulletin Terriers. Hogarth settled in and practiced as a Veterinary Surgeon at Swanbourne Veterinary Hospital (now known as Swanbourne Veterinary Centre), in Perth, Western Australia 1940s to the 1960s.
The main customers were dog and cat owners, but he did have the opportunity to deal with the occasional circus animal from visiting circuses.
He was involved with early stages of the Guide Dogs for the Blind, Dogs Refuge Home, Western Australian Veterinary Surgeons Board and was patron of the Fremantle Ladies Pipe Band. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of a group of West Australian book collectors who were well known on the antiquarian book sale and auction circuit in Perth. On retirement he lived in Darlington, Western Australia.
He occasionally judged at dog shows in his 70"son
He died in Perth, Western Australia on Australia Day, 26 January 1999. These are correlated to some of the text - Travels of a Dog Judge.
3 January Sangrur, Jind, India
January Patiala, India
25–26 January Calcutta, India
30 January Rangoon, Burma
8–9 February Chutter Manzil, Lucknow, India
11–12 February Allahabad, India
18–19 February Bombay, India
25 February Patiala, India
4 March Dehra Dun, India
8 March Calcutta, India
15 March Colombo, Ceylon
27–28 March Perth, Western Australia
April, South Australia
26–27 April Sydney, New South Wales
14–18 May Ipswich, Queensland
3 June Newcastle, New South Wales
7–8 June Melbourne, Victoria
2–3 August Ceylon
20–21 September Durban, South Africa
October Buenos Aires, Argentina
Travels of a Dog Judge Round the World, Galashiels, A Walker & Son 1935
A Bulletin Terrier Notebook, Galashiels, A Walker & Son 1936
Bulletin-Terrier Doggerel, Galashiels: A Walker & Son. 1937
The Bulletin Terrier, Manchester, Our Dogs.
1937. Second edition
American reprint of The Bulletin Terrier, First Edition was not done in consultation with either Doctor Hogarth or his family. Articles in the 1920s and 1930s in "Our Dogs" and other dog magazines and newspapers. "Dog expert set standard".
Sunday Times, Perth, West.A. 28 February 1999. p.
44. Obituary
"Obituary - Thomas William Hogarth" (Postdoctoral fellows). Australian Veterinary Journal 77 (8): 521.
1999. doi:10.1111/j.1751-0813.1999.tb12124.x.