the Moor, The Poetic Mirror, and Queen Hynde (1826); and in prose Winter Evening Tales (1820), The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman.  In his later years his home was a cottage at Altrive on 70 acres of moorland presented to him by the Duchess of Buccleuch, where he d. greatly lamented.  As might be expected from his almost total want of regular education, H. was often greatly wanting in taste, but he had real imagination and poetic faculty.  Some of his lyrics like The Skylark are perfect in their spontaneity and sweetness, and his Kilmeny is one of the most exquisite fairy tales in the language.  Hogg was vain and greedy of praise, but honest and, beyond his means, generous.  He is a leading character, partly idealised, partly caricatured, in Wilson’s Noctes Ambrosianae.

HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1792-1862).—­Biographer, s. of John H., a country gentleman of Durham, ed. at Durham Grammar School, and Univ.  Coll., Oxf., where he made the acquaintance of Shelley, whose lifelong friend and biographer he became.  Associated with S. in the famous pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism, he shared in the expulsion from the Univ. which it entailed, and thereafter devoted himself to the law, being called to the Bar in 1817.  In 1832 he contributed to Bulwer’s New Monthly Magazine his Reminiscences of Shelley, which was much admired.  Thereafter he was commissioned to write a biography of the poet, of which he completed 2 vols., but in so singular a fashion that the material with which he had been entrusted was withdrawn.  The work, which is probably unique in the annals of biography, while giving a vivid and credible picture of S. externally, shows no true appreciation of him as a poet, and reflects with at least equal prominence the humorously eccentric personality of the author, which renders it entertaining in no common degree.  Other works of H. were Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, and a book of travels, Two Hundred and Nine Days (1827).  He m. the widow of Williams, Shelley’s friend, who was drowned along with him.

HOLCROFT, THOMAS (1745-1809).—­Dramatist, s. of a small shoemaker in London, passed his youth as a pedlar, and as a Newmarket stable boy.  A charitable person having given him some education he became a schoolmaster, but in 1770 went on the provincial stage.  He then took to writing plays, and was the first to introduce the melodrama into England.  Among his plays, The Road to Ruin (1792) is the best, and is still acted; others were Duplicity (1781), and A Tale of Mystery.  Among his novels are Alwyn (1780), and Hugh Trevor, and he wrote the well-known song, Gaffer Gray.  H. was a man of stern and irascible temper, industrious and energetic, and a sympathiser with the French Revolution.