James McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne

James Macnaghten McGarel-Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne, KCB (3 May 1823 – 27 June 1890), was a British politician, Member of Parliament, and local government leader.

Early life James Macnaghten Hogg was born in Calcutta on 3 May 1823 into an Ulster-Scots family, being the son of Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Baronet, and the former Mary Swinton. His father was the Administrator-General of Bengal and Chairman of the British East India Company. Among his large immediate family were Isabella Hogg (wife of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth), Florence Hogg (wife of George William Campbell), Charles Swinton Hogg (who married Harriet Anne Stirling, daughter of Sir Walter Stirling, 2nd Baronet), Mary Rosina Hogg (wife of Charles McGarel of Magheramorne), Fergusson Floyer Hogg (who married Elizabeth Helen Parsons, a granddaughter of the 2nd Earl of Rosse), Annie Claudina Hogg (who never married), Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg (who married Selina Catherine Perry, daughter of Sir Thomas Erskine Perry), Sir Frederick Russell Hogg (who married Emily Eckford and Harriett Venn Dicken, sister-in-law of the 5th Marquess of Sligo), Stapleton Cotton Hogg (the Assistant Finance Secretary, India Office), Constance Hogg (who married Francis Augustus Bevan), and Quintin Hogg (who married Alice Anna Graham).

His paternal grandparents were William Hogg and Mary (née Dickey) Hogg (a James Dickey of Dunmore, County Antrim). His maternal grandparents were Isabella (née Routledge) Swinton and Samuel Swinton of Swinton House, Swinton, Berwickshire.

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford but left Oxford early without taking his degree to enter the Army and became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Life Guards, part of the Household Cavalry. Together, they were the parents of: