He was born in 1833 in Delhi to Sir James Hogg, formerly a director of the British East India Company and the Registrar of the Calcutta High Court. In 1853, at the age of twenty, Stuart Hogg entered the Indian Civil Services.
Born in 1833 in Delhi to Sir James Hogg, who was once a director of the British East India Company and Registrar of the Calcutta High Court, Stuart Hogg joined the Indian Civil Services in 1853 at age twenty.