Van Hogendorp lived continually in the shadow of his father, the founder of the first Dutch Constitution.
In that same year, he married his first cousin Marianne Cathérine jonkvrouw van Hogendorp.
They had a number of children, including Dirk van Hogendorp jr. (1833-1857), who like his father studied at Leiden and became a lawyer, and Anna van Hogendorp (1841-1915), who became a Christian supporter of women's suffrage.
The last edition appeared as a result of a TV series made for the RVU by Theo Uittenbogaard, 'De Zomer van 1823' ('The Summer of 1823'), in which he and Geert Mak retraced the pair's footsteps.
The archives of Van Hogendorp are named in the 1955 Kluit Catalogus of the library of the University of Amsterdam on The Réveil.