Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Thomas Jefferson Hogg ( born May 24, 1792 in Stockton -on-Tees, County Durham, † August 27 1862 in London) was a British lawyer, barrister, writer and friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The rest of Hogg's life was quieter. However, Hogg showed the tendency to fall in love Shelley's women, for example, Harriet Westbrook (unsuccessfully) and 1814 in Mary Shelley (with more chance of success, favored by Percy - but she was pregnant). He recorded his complicated relationship with Shelley in the 1811 anonymously published novel Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff.

John and Prudence Hogg, his parents saw in Shelley a bad influence on her son, but noted with the time that he was no longer a vegetarian and she sometimes accompanied her to the church. He completed his legal training, but was neither financially nor hierarchical particularly successful. He managed to get neither a court nor the position of a professor. However, he made ​​a name for himself as an expert in ancient Greek ds and after Shelley's death he made the last of this dear Jane Williams to his wife - against the opposition of his family and with major legal difficulties ( her first marriage to a John Johnson insisted that is still formally ).

1857 Percy Florence Shelley asked him, the surviving son of the poet to a biography of his father. Hogg published in two volumes in 1858, but found little favorable reception.