THOMAS

See also:

• JEFFERSON
• JEFFERSON, JOSEPH (1829-1905)
• JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826)

JEFFERSON

See also:

• HOGG, JAMES (1770-1835)
• THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG (1792–1862)

HOGG (1792–1862)  , English man of letters, was born at Norton, Durham, on the 24th of May 1792 . He was educated at Durham grammar school and at University College, Oxford . Here he became the intimate friend of the poet Shelley, with whom in 1811 he was expelled from the university for refusing to disclaim connexion with the author-ship of the pamphlet The Necessity for Atheism . He was then sent to study law at York, where he remained for six months . Hogg's behaviour to Harriet Shelley interrupted his relations with her husband for some time, but in 1813 the friendship was renewed in London . In 1817 Hogg was called to the bar, and became later a revising barrister . In 1844 he inherited 2000 under Shelley's will, and in 1855, in accordance with the wishes of the poet's family, began to write Shelley's biography . The first two volumes of it were published in 1858, but they proved to be far more an autobiography than a biography, and Shelley's representatives refused Hogg further access to the materials necessary for its completion . Hogg died on the 27th of August 1862 .