Henry Roughton Hogg

Life & Legacy

Henry Roughton Hogg (9 February 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British amateur arachnologist and businessman who lived in both Australia and Britain.
Hogg emigrated to Australia in December 1873 and co-founded a mercantile and shipping agency in Melbourne, becoming a prominent member of the business community. He joined the Field Naturalists' Club and the Royal Society of Victoria and acquired a specialist knowledge of the spiders of Australia and New Zealand. Hogg was given access to specimens of spiders collected by the 1894 Horn scientific expedition to central Australia and contributed the section on spiders in the published results of the expedition.
Hogg and his wife returned to England in August 1900. He continued to study spiders and contributed regular articles to the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London and other publications and scientific journals, often providing the first descriptions of new species. His earlier papers dealt with the spiders of Australasia, but he also authored descriptions of spiders from other regions of the world.