James Macnaghten Mcgarel-Hogg
James Macnaghten Mcgarel-Hogg - Lord Magheramorne (1823-1890)
1890 Obituary [1]
LORD MAGHERAMORNE (Sir James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, Bart., K.C.B.,) was born at Calcutta on the 3rd of May, 1823. He was the eldest son of the late Right Hon. Sir James Weir Hogg, formerly Member of Council for India, who for many years represented Beverley and Honiton in Parliament.
He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1843 he entered the 1st Life Guards, becoming Major and Lieutenant Colonel in 1855, and in 1859 he retired from the service. In politics he was a Conservative, and represented Bath from 1865 to 1868, being selected on the assembling of Parliament in November, 1867, to second the Address.
In 1871 he was elected Member for Truro, for which place he sat until 1885. In 1885 he was returned for Hornsey, and retained his seat unopposed in 1886. He took an active interest for many years in matters of local administration, having been a member of the St. Margaret and St. John Vestry, the Westminster District Board of Works, and subsequently of the Guardian Board and Vestry of St. George, Hanover Square.
He was elected in 1867 to represent this latter body upon the Metropolitan Board of Works, and on the death of the Chairman, Sir John Thwaites, in the autumn of 1870, was elected by his colleagues to be the successor of Sir John Thwaites, and to this position he was annually re-elected until the Board itself ceased to exist. On the 5th of August, 1871, he, as Chairman of the Board, laid the foundation stone of the Chelsea Embankment, an improvement originally proposed in 1839, but abandoned for lack of funds, and finally undertaken by the Board of Works in 1868, when the necessary powers were obtained from Parliament.
At the opening of the Embankment in 1874 Lieut.- Colonel James Macnaghten Hogg, as he was then called, was created a K.C.B. On the death of his father in 1876 he succeeded to the baronetcy, and in 1877 assumed by Royal licence the surname of McGarel in addition to and before that of Hogg, and the additional arms of McGarel, in compliance with the will of the late Charles McGarel, Esq., of Magheramorne, by which he inherited the estates. Magheramorne is, as its name implies, the place of settlement of one of the most famous of the Irish tribes, the Mornes. It is situated on the borders of Lough Larne, which was one of the landing places of the Viking settlers in Ireland. The estate has belonged to various families of distinction, and in 1842 came into the possession of the late Charles McGarel, Esq., after whose death, in 1876, it passed into the hands of the subject of this notice, who, on being elevated to the Peerage in 1887, took his title from his Irish estate. As Chairman of the Board of Works he was prompt and firm in his decisions, showing himself thoroughly acquainted with the rules of debate, and though a little abrupt at times, was always courteous in his manner to all. That he was popular with his colleagues is shown by his repeated re-election as Chairman for so many years. Lord Magheramorne died on the 27th of June, 1890, of inflammation of the lungs.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution on the 6th of February, 1872.