Thomas Hogarth was born in Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, and emigrated with his brother John to South Australia on the Delhi, arriving in December 1838.
[1] He was for a time farming at the Black Forest with William Bowman and with Robert Patterson.
He worked at roadmaking and flour-milling, then the manufacture of agricultural implements (and much later was involved with John Ridley in improvements to his reaper).
His brother John died a few months after arriving in Australia.
He ran Strangways Springs station with his son-in-law John Warren MLC, then around 1850 began farming on the Gawler Plains, near Smithfield, South Australia.