Sir James Macnaghten Hogg
Politician and civil administrator. Born in Calcutta. The elder brother of Quintin Hogg. He changed his surname to Mcgarel-Hogg when he inherited his brother-in-law's estates. Served in the Life Gu...
Politician and civil administrator. Born in Calcutta. The elder brother of Quintin Hogg. He changed his surname to Mcgarel-Hogg when he inherited his brother-in-law's estates. Served in the Life Gu...
Governor of the New River Company, in 1786, a Master in Chancery and a director of the East India Company. Died in 1804 ‘immensely rich’. From History of Parliament.
Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5. Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of...
Chairman of the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
We thank Jay Dae-Su Vega for permission to use this picture from his website where we learn that Holland was a barrister. Thence we found the Middle Temple register of admissions where we learn tha...
Balloonist and politician. Born London to a wealthy Bengal civil servant. Financed the 1836 balloon voyage from Vauxhall Gardens to Weilburg in Germany, on which he was a passenger. This set a reco...
Railway engineer, very influential in Argentina where he was Chairman of many railway companies. Excelled at polo as a young man. First Chairman of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust. Our picture co...