Hugh Hogarth’s youngest son was Peter Clark Hogarth, his only child to be born in Scotland. In 1912 he married Mary Cringan in Kilmarnock; Mary was a nurse and came from the small Ayrshire town of Muirkirk. She was almost certainly related to “Willie” Cringan the famous Scottish International footballer. Peter worked as a professional Civil Engineer until his death in Belfast in 1956. He probably is the P.C.Hogarth holding a Patient in 1927 GB294500 Hogarth, P. C. April 22, 1927. Stands for recreation grounds. He shared some of his father’s adventuring spirit, since in the early 1920s he moved to Belfast and in the 1930s worked in Dublin at a time when Ireland was politically unsettled. In the early 1920s he is living in Ivy Cottage in Donaghadee, a small village on Belfast Lough; in Dublin his is living in the prestigious Leeson Street, and his last address in Belfast is Dunore Old Dundonald Road , a pleasant area close to Stormont. Earlier he had lived at 30, Rosetta Avenue in Belfast where he appears in the telephone directory from 1940; Rosetta is a pleasant, middle class area of South East Belfast. He also seems to have maintained an address at 60 Boothferry Road in Hull where he is listed in the telephone directory as ‘P.C.Hogarth structural engineer’ throughout the 1940s and early 1950s. He may have links to the steel company Dorman Long, active in Northern England. In the 1950s he had an office in central Belfast at 58 Waring Street, a good commercial address.
In Belfast he was involved in the construction of the Law Courts in the 1920s, the Ulster Museum and the Gaumont Cinema in the city centre. He had two sons. Robert and Hugh, and a daughter, Jane Bryce; there are a number of grandchildren and great grand children. He died on 2nd January 1956 and is buried in Belfast’s Roselawn Cemetary. Mary Cringan Hogarth died in January 1968 at the age of 83 and is also buried in Roselawn. Their daughter Jane Bryce Hogarth (later Addy) died in 2001 in Belfast.
One of his grandsons recalls him as an extrovert, larger than life character who often wore a stetson-type hat and was a gregarious man with an expansive style of behaviour. He notes that he was a good artist and a very fine piano player. He also believes that he had a great love of Dublin.
Peter’s older brother Hugh is married by 1901 and living in Cathcart with his wife, Elizabeth and two daughters, Jane and Flora. He is still a draper’s salesman. In 1927 Flora Craig Hogarth is a passenger on The Caledonian, travelling to New York. Neither daughter appears to have married.
Little is known about Hugh Hogarth’s other children, the daughters did not marry and James probably died childless.
