HOGG, DAVID (1811-80), the first Presbyterian minister in Wanganui, was born at Haddington, Scotland, and educated in Edinburgh. He was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and built up a new congregation in East Lothian. His brother, Peter Dodds Hogg, was sub-collector of customs at Port Nicholson (1841), and temporarily filled the post of chief collector of revenue at Auckland, and commissioner of audit (after the resignation of George Cooper 1843). In 1845 he was stationed at Nelson and a few months later at Wellington. He was drowned at sea about 1850. David Hogg came to New Zealand in the Slains Castle (1852), and was appointed to Wanganui, where he preached in a toetoe whare to 30 people in Jan 1853. He retired about 1870 and died in 1880.

Family information; Cycl. N.Z., i; Ward; Woon.

Reference: Volume 1, page 219

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