Autograph, Sir James Hogg (1st Baronet) (1790-1876 AD), Document dated 1824, Irish-born businessman, Lawyer and Politician, who served in England as a Liberal-Conservative Member of Parliament. He was called to the Bar and preceded to India in 1814, where he obtained a large and lucrative practice. In 1822 he accepted the appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Calcutta, which he held until his return to England in 1833, In 1839 he was elected a Director of the East India Company. He was elected MP for Beverley in 1834, and represented Honiton from 1847–1857, which seat he lost by two votes at the general election that year. Hogg was twice Chairman of the East India Company, and in 1858 when the government of India was transferred to The Crown he was elected member of the Council of India, until his resignation in 1872, He was created a Baronet, of Upper Grosvenor Street in the County of London, in 1846 and was offered the posts of Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom) and the Governorship of Bombay, both of which he refused, about very fine, Extremely Rare.

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