| Biography | Hogg, Quintin McGarel, second Viscount Hailsham and Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (19072001), lawyer and politician, was born at 5 Cleveland Square, Bayswater, London, on 9 October 1907, the elder son (there were no daughters) of Douglas McGarel Hogg, first Viscount Hailsham (18721950), politician, and his first wife, Elizabeth (Myssie) (d. 1925), daughter of James Trimble Brown, judge, of Nashville, Tennessee, and widow of the Hon. Archibald John Marjoribanks, younger son of Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, first Baron Tweedmouth. Hogg had a half-brother, Edward, from his mother's first marriage. Douglas Hogg was an outstandingly successful lawyerpolitician, but his career was unorthodox: he was forty-nine when elected MP for St Marylebone and appointed attorney-general in Bonar Law's administration. He had a close relationship with his elder son, whom he fired with an enthusiasm for both law and politics. [ODNB] |