Robert Hogg (biologist)

He published his book British Pomology in 1851, and co-edited The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits and General Horticulture.

Hogg was born in Duns, Berwickshire, the son of Grace née Wilson and a namesake father who ran a nursery business in Coldstream.

In 1861 he was elected to the Linnean Society as a fellow and he also received an LLD after which he was referred to as Dr Hogg.

He was recruited to improve fruit growing in Herefordshire by Charles Henry Bulmer who was in the cider business.

Hogg married Caroline Amelia (1821–1905), daughter of corn businessman Charles Milligan in 1844.