Quintin hogg biography of abraham
Quintin Hogg, born on 14th February , was the 14th child of Sir James and Mary Hogg.
Abraham, Joshua and Saul are softened down in the tenderness of Isaiah, and finally in the life of our Lord Jesus..
Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Hogg, Quintin
HOGG, QUINTIN (1846–1903), philanthropist, fourteenth child and seventh son of Sir James Weir Hogg [q.
v.] and Mary Claudine, daughter of Samuel Swinton, of the Indian civil service, was born on 14 Feb. 1845 in Grosvenor Street, London. Sir James MacNaghten McGarel Hogg, first Baron Magheramorne [q. v.], was his eldest brother; four other brothers were in the service of the Indian government.
After attending preparatory schools, Quintin entered Mr. Joynes' house at Eton in 1858, and there took a prominent part in athletics, especially in association football, which was then a recent development. He long maintained an active interest in the game, playing in some early international matches.
P.m..While at Eton, too, he showed strong religious leanings, which coloured his whole life (Story of Peter, p. 44). In 1863 he left Eton for the office of Messrs. Thompson, tea merchants, in the City of London; eighteen mont