Sir Philip Joseph Hartog KBE CIE (2 March 1864 – 27 June 1947) was a British chemist and educationalist who undertook this role in England and India.

An outstanding service to the university, the Empire, and the Eastern world, in general, was his large share in the creation in the middle of the 1914–18 war of the School of Oriental Studies, to which the name "African" was added later.

[3] Hartog was a member of the commission under the late Sir Michael Sadler on Calcutta University which was appointed in 1917 and issued a voluminous report in 1919.

[3] On the creation of the Indian Public Service Commission in 1926 Hartog was appointed a member and served until permitted to retire on family grounds in 1930.

When the Indian Statutory Commission was set up in 1928 under Sir John (later Lord) Simon, Hartog was appointed chairman of the Auxiliary Committee on Education.

The organisation thereby set up was renamed in 1945 the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales, and in 1947 it applied for a royal charter.

Hartog was also the prime mover in the setting up by the Ministry of Labour and National Service before the outbreak of war in 1939 of a Linguistic Committee of the Appointments Registry, and he was its first chairman.