Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and clergyman. Pseudonym J. H. Born c. 1828 in Denny, Scotland. Minister at Covington and Thankerton (1865-1890). Married twice, to Elizabeth Macleod and then Isabella Gibson. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for the poem A Scotch Bank-Note, lists the author as Rev. J. Hoggan, of Covington, Thankerton (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: The Church of Scotland Home & Foreign Mission Record, vol. 17, January 1889-December 1890, Church of Scotland, 1890, p. 325; William A. Fleming, Covington & Thankerton: A History of the Parish and and its Peoples, vol. 2, p. 50. (AC, CC).