Hogg, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1862)

English biographer. He was the lifelong friend and biographer of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Associated with Shelley in the pamphlet ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ 1811, he was expelled from Oxford University and later became a lawyer. In 1832 he contributed to Bulwer's New Monthly Magazine his Reminiscences of Shelley, which was much admired. Hogg was then commissioned to write a biography of the poet, but the first two volumes, published 1858, gave such offence that the work remained unfinished.

He was born in Norton, Durham, and educated at University College, Oxford, where he met Shelley.