HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON English man of letters, was born in Norton, Durham. He was educated at Durham grammar school and at University college, Oxford, where he became the friend of Shelley, with whom in 181I he was expelled from the university for refusing to disclaim connection with the authorship of the pamphlet The Necessity for Atheism. He then studied law at York for six months. Hogg's behaviour to Harriet Shelley interrupted his relations with her husband for some time, but in 1813 the friendship was renewed in London. In 1817 Hogg was called to the bar, and became later a revising barrister. In 1844 he inherited £ 2,000 under Shelley's will, and in 1855, in accordance with the wishes of the poet's family, began to write Shelley's biography. The first two volumes of it were published in 1858, but they proved to be far more an autobiog raphy than a biography, and Shelley's representatives refused Hogg further access to the materials necessary for its completion.