He was Rector of the University of Glasgow three times between 1738 and 1750 and was the father of the young adventurer, George Bogle,[1] private secretary to Warren Hastings, who led the first attempted British embassy from India to Tibet and the Emperor of China in 1774.
In 1690, an Act of the Scottish Parliament recorded the return of lands to "Tomas Bogle of Boglehole", after forfeiture (presumably having chosen the wrong side during the Civil Wars).
In that year, Bonnie Prince Charlie was in Glasgow with his army and on Christmas Day sent a George (like most of the local gentry, reluctant to support this rebellion) a demand for hay, oats and straw for his horses "under pain of military execution".
George Bogle of Daldowie married Anne Sinclair (connected to an influential Lord of Session – and, distantly, to Oliver Cromwell) – in 1731, by whom he had three sons and four daughters.
The youngest son was a third George Bogle, (born 1747) who used family connections, and the influence of Henry Dundas, to get a position as private secretary to Warren Hastings of the British East India Company.
This latter George Bogle was asked by Warren Hastings to lead an expedition from Calcutta to Tibet in an effort to get the Lama to persuade the Chinese Emperor to establish ties with Britain.