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 the dispatch vessel in the Persian Gulf. His confidential reports during this period describe a capable leader, with a markedly beneficial influence over junior officers and the ship's company. Qualifying as a specialist navigator in 1937, he was appointed to the cruiser . His war started in the obsolete light cruiser on the arduous northern blockade patrol that deprived Germany of imports, and it continued briefly in the cruiser where his "somewhat casual manner" was perceptively diagnosed as "liable to mislead". His war career showed that he was clearly able to differentiate the important from the unimportant and to "bear an even strain" under testing circumstances.