D. G. Hogarth was the son of Reverend George Hogarth,
Vicar of
Barton-upon-Humber, and Jane Elizabeth (Uppleby) Hogarth. He had a sister three years younger,
Janet E. Courtney, an author and feminist. In one of his autobiographical works, Hogarth claimed to be an antiquary who was made so, rather than born to it. He said, "nothing disposed me to my trade in early years." Those years included a secondary education, 1876–1880, at
Winchester College, which claims to be, and was labelled by Hogarth as, "our oldest
Public School."[1]
Sykes befriended Hogarth, who had described India Government as believing they had a moral imperative to the British Raj as the best form of government and could not fail in their duty to impose it on a Province of Mesopotamia. The Arabists rejected this proposal vehemently; Sykes taking Hogarth's research as evidence of the uniquely different situation in the protectorate. The archaeologists knew it was clear that the Raj had no understanding of the different conditions, that there needed to be a specific "Arab Policy" for what had become a frontier of empire.[11]
On 7 November 1894, Hogarth married Laura Violet Uppleby, daughter of
George Charles Uppleby.[13] His wife and mother shared a common great-great-grandfather, one John Uppleby of Wootton, Lincolnshire.[14] Laura Violet was 26 at the time; David George, 32. They had one son, William David Hogarth (1901–1965).[15] A granddaughter,
Caroline Barron, is a historian of later medieval England.[16]
In 1926, Hogarth's health began rapidly deteriorating due to a heart condition, and he was granted leave from Oxford in October 1927. He died on 6 November 1927 at his home in Oxford (
20 St Giles' Street). He was aged 65.[2][17]
Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, Hunt, Arthur Surridge, and Hogarth, David George (1900).
Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner/Quaritch/Frowde.
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abcde"Hogarth, David George, (23 May 1862–6 Nov. 1927), Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum since 1909; President of the Royal Geographical Society since 1925". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2007.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U197973.
^It was at the Ashmolean in early 1909 that Hogarth first met T. E. Lawrence – Wilson, Jeremy (1989) Lawrence of Arabia p.53 – ( see also long footnote on p.987-988 where
Robert Graves in his 1927 work Lawrence and the Arabs had an account of the meeting as January 1909 )
^M, J. L. (1927) Dr. D. G. Hogarth, C.M.G M, J. L Nature Vol: 120 Issue: 3029
ISSN0028-0836 Date: 1927 Pages: 735 – 737, "...By the unexpected death of Dr. David George Hogarth (6 Nov.), geography and archaeology lost briefly their most distinguished representatives in Great Britain ..."