Misplaced Pages

James Wilson Hogg

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

James Wilson HoggMBE
Born(1909-07-22)22 July 1909
Wellington, New Zealand
Died6 May 1997(1997-05-06) (aged 87)
Sydney, Australia
NationalityNew Zealander
EducationScots College, Wellington
Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Headmaster, Trinity Grammar School (New South Wales)
(1944–1974)
Chairman, Headmasters' Conference of the Independent Schools of Australia
(1959–1962)
SpouseAlyson (née Webb)
Children1 son, 3 daughters

James Wilson Hogg, MBE (1909-1997) was a New Zealand-born headmaster of a CAS School in Australia and chairman of the Headmasters' Conference of the Independent Schools of Australia.

Biography

Jim Hogg was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and educated at Scots College, Wellington, and New Zealand University. In 1929 he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he read History and graduated with a Master of Arts. After teaching in the United Kingdom and New Zealand he became senior English master at Knox Grammar School in Sydney. In 1944 he was appointed Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School and remained in that position for 31 years. In 1974, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his service to education. Hogg’s youngest daughter, Elizabeth Fensham, is a children and young adults’ author.

References

  1. Legge (J.), S, Who's who in Australia 1968 (19th ed.), The Herald and Weekly Times Limited; 1968, retrieved 2 October 2017
  2. "Our proper concerns : a history of the Headmasters' Conference of the Independent Schools of Australia / J. Wilson Hogg". Parramatta, N.S.W. : Macarthur Press, 1986. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. It's an Honour Archived 20 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  4. The Teachers' Guild of NSW Proceedings 1995 1996 Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  5. MJA Retrieved 5 September 2018.
Categories: