Brigadier General Adam George Forbes Hogg

Brigadier General Adam Hogg was born in 1836, joining the Bombay Army in 1854. He saw active service in Persia in 1857, the Indian Mutiny, the China War of 1860 and in Abyssinia in 1867-68 when he was promoted brevet major.

He was in the Afghan war of 1878-79 when he was promoted brevet colonel. He was QMG of the Bombay Army from 1880-85 before becoming Political Resident (and commander of a 2^nd Class District) in Aden from 1885-90. He was appointed CB in 1886. He was promoted Major General on leaving Aden and Lieutenant General in 1893.

He had presumably been retired for a while when he was awarded a KCB in 1904. He died in 1908. In Aden his name is remembered by the Hogg Tower on the ridge between Tawahi and Steamer Point which was built 1894-95.