Quintin Hogg (merchant)

Quintin Hogg (14 February 1845 – 17 January 1903) was an English philanthropist, remembered primarily as a benefactor of the Royal Polytechnic institution at Regent Street, London, now the University of Westminster.

[1] He showed strong religious convictions and held prayer meetings; he was also a prominent rifle volunteer.

As a senior partner in a firm of tea merchants, he modernised sugar production in Demerara at the plantation of his brother-in-law, the former slave owner Charles McGarel.

Hogg turned his energy to educational reform: in 1864 he founded York Place Ragged School.

With Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (1847–1923, later 11th Baron Kinnaird) and Thomas Henry William Pelham[2] (1847–1916), he rented rooms in York Place (formerly Alley), off The Strand in central London, for a boys' school, initially a day school, later open in the evenings.

Hogg was an alderman of the first London County Council, encouraging the founding of other polytechnics, then called working men's (or mechanics') institutes.

Plaque at the Polytechnic entrance, Regent Street
Memorial statue in Portland Place
Alice Hogg in 1900