HOGARTH, DAVID GEORGE English archaeologist, was born on May 23, .1862, at Barton-on-Humber, Lincs, the son of a clergyman, and died at Oxford on Nov. 6, 1927. He had been president of the Royal Geographical Society since 1925 and keeper of the Ashmolean museum since 1909. He was not only one of the greatest scholars of his time but also a man of action who left his mark on the middle east through the magnificent work which he did as director of the Arab Bureau at Cairo during the World War.
Hogarth was educated at Winchester and Magdalen college, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1886. In 1893 he was elected a research fellow to carry out archaeological investigations in the Levant. He conducted explorations in Cyprus, Egypt, Ephesus, Carchemish and Crete (1887-1907). He was for a time director of the British school at Athens and in 1899 became director of the Cretan exploration fund.
In 1915 he was sent to Cairo by the director of naval intelligence with the temporary rank of lieutenant-commander to take charge of the communications with the Arab leaders which were intended to lead to the Arab revolt against Turkish rule. Next year he began to build up at Cairo that Arab Bureau which drew into its service Gertrude Bell, Mark Sykes, T. E. Lawrence and other brilliant servants. He then returned to London to work there on Arab and middle-eastern problems, returning to Cairo in the last year of the war. In 1919 he was British commissioner at the Middle-East Commission of the Paris Peace Conference.
His works include A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896), which at once won for him the love of many readers; Philip and Alexander of Macedon (1897) ; The Nearer East (1902) ; The Penetration of Arabia 0904); Carchernish I. (1914) ; The Wan dering Scholar (1925) ; Kings of the Hittites (1926); etc. etc.