James Weir Hogg

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Sir James Weir Hogg was Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature and Vice-Admiralty Court in Calcutta for many years and also represented Beverley and Honiton in the House of Commons. He had fourteen children. His son, the second Baronet, was Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works in London from 1870 to 1889. On July 5, 1887 he was created Baron Magheramorne, of Magheramorne in the County of Antrim, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, as part of the celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

He was the last chairman of the British East India Company. Sir James married on 26th July 1822, Mary Swinton, the daughter of Samuel Swinton of Swinton House, Swinton Berwickshire. Sir James and Lady Hogg had fourteen children. (see "Swinton Family" & "Clan Swinton".)