Mary Hogarth beautiful and light-hearted". When Robert Story visited the Hogarth household in 1836, he described Hogarth as "the fairest flower of spring". Dickens showed particular affection to Hogarth, and described her as "a close friend, an exceptional sister, a companion at home." It is believed that Hogarth was the first person to read "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist", as Dickens valued Hogarth's input and feedback more than his wife's. In the early hours of 7 May 1837, after Hogarth had returned from a showing of "Is She His Wife?" at the St James's Theatre with the Dickens couple, she collapsed
George Hogarth Pringle board the sailing ship "Parramatta" on 31 March 1872 aged 41 while returning to Australia from a further visit to Britain and was buried at sea. His son James Hogarth Pringle (1863–1941) returned to Britain after his father's death. He too became a surgeon and made a number of significant contributions to surgery. George Hogarth Pringle George Hogarth Pringle (22 December 1830 – 31 March 1872) was a Scottish-Australian surgeon. He is most widely known for the Pringle manoeuvre, a technique of occluding the portal triad to control hemorrhage. George Hogarth Pringle was born at Kintail in Ross-shire, Scotland. His