Author: Hogg, Thomas
Biography:
HOGG, Thomas (1778-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Kelso, Roxburghshire, and he may have been the Thomas Hogg whose father was James Hogg and who was baptised on 23 Aug. 1778. At some point he moved to Cornwall where he was master of the school at Redruth; in 1805 he became master of the Free Grammar School in Truro. His wife, Mary Forrest was born in Edinburgh and they were married in about 1802; no record has been located. Their daughter, Ann, was born in about 1804. He was living in London when he died. His widow applied to the RLF for assistance, stating that she and Ann owned only the furniture in their rented house and were letting out rooms to boarders; she was awarded £25 in 1835. Both Mary and Ann were long-lived: Mary died in 1879 at the age of 100, and Ann in 1905 when she was 99. (ancestry.co.uk 26 Feb. 2019; RLF file 835; Gentleman’s Magazine 75 [1805]: 769; W. H. K. Wright, West-Country Poets [1896] 255-56; Cornishman 2 Mar. 1905; Dundee Evening Telegraph 22 Oct. 1879)