Ian Hogg

Vice-Admiral Sir Ian Leslie Trower Hogg (30 May 1911 – 2 March 2003) was a Royal Navy officer whose service extended from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. He received several medals for his service as a navigator during the Second World War. From 1967 to 1970 he served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

Early life and career Ian Leslie Trower Hogg, the son of an Indian Army colonel, was born in Camberley on 30 May 1911. His mother died at Dehra Dun two months after his birth. He was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Navy in 1929 as a Special Entry – or ex-public school – cadet, earning a first-class certificate on graduation from the training ship .

He subsequently served in the battleships and and the cruiser HMS Effingham on the East Indies Station. His aptitude for navigation was shown early when a lieutenant in the destroyer in the Mediterranean in 1934, and was Flag Officer, Medway and Admiral Superintendent Chatham Dockyard. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1964.

As a vice admiral he was the Defence Services Secretary from 1966 to 1967, managing the relationship between the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Family and also maintaining the balance of appointments of senior officers to tri-service "defence department" posts—those posts which are rotated between the services. His final tour was as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff during a difficult period of retrenchment in the defence sector. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and retired in 1970.

Retirement and last years From 1971 until 1974 Hogg was the Comptroller of the Royal Society of St George, an institution founded in 1894 with the object of promoting the English way of life.

He died on 2 March 2003, aged 91.