Surname: Hoggan Forename(s): James Nationality: Scottish.
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).