Stuart Saunders Hogg

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Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg

Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg was an English civil servant in the Indian Civil Services of British India. He was born in 1833 to Sir James Hogg, formerly a director of the British East India Company and the Registrar of the Calcutta High Court. In 1853, at the age of twenty, Stuart Hogg entered the Indian Civil Services. During the Sepoy Mutiny, he was posted in the Panjab. Later, he joined the Bengal government as the Police Commissioner of Calcutta where he established the Detective Department. From 1863 to 1877 he was the Chairman of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation. In 1875 he was knighted.

New Market, Calcutta, an upscale market that he founded, was named Sir Stuart Hogg Market in 1903 in his honor. It is still often referred to as Hogg's Market.