No Rowling entry in New DNB?

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Carol wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/28941 :
> 
> << On the off chance that anyone wants to look up my three articles
> (all three men were friends of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe
> Shelley), they're Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Thomas Medwin, and Edward
> Ellerker Williams. (I can hear everyone who reads this far saying
> "Who?") >>
> 
> Was Thomas Jefferson Hogg an American? There was a somebody Hogg who
> was a Governor of Texas whose fame is that he named his daughter Ima
> after a poem (by Tennyson IIRC).


Carol responds:
No, T. J. Hogg was English. Thomas and Jefferson were both family
names. He was born in 1792 (like Shelley), but his family were staunch
conservatives and would never have named their son after an American
Patriot (not what they would have called him) who was at that time
Washington's secretary of state.

Hogg's claims to fame are, first, that he was expelled with Shelley
from Oxford when they were both eighteen for "contumaciously
refulsing" to divulge the author of a provocatively titled little
philosophical pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism" that Shelley
had written (with some help from Hogg) and placed conspicuously in
some bookshop windows (not quite sure how he managed that) and second,
his so-called "Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley," which I argued in my
doctoral dissertation was deliberately distorted and in some cases
provably false (altered documents for which the original is extant,
altered names, etc.). Since Shelley was charming, popular with women,
and famous (or notorious) when he drowned at 29 in the Bay of Lerici,
I'm pretty sure that Hogg (who had a large hooked nose and was (as an
older man) as porky as his name suggests, I think it's highly probable
that Hogg was jealous. He ended up "marrying" a woman named Jane
Williams, the last of Shelley's loves (I'm pretty sure it was a
Platonic relationship as they were both married and all four were
living in the same house.) Or rather, Jane was living with her
common-law husband, the Edward Ellerker Williams of one of my other
articles. Her real husband had deserted her and she couldn't remarry
because she didn't know if he was alive or dead. So Hogg, emulating
Shelley (who had eloped to Scotland with a sixteen-year-old when he
was barely nineteen, then eloped to Italy with another
sixteen-year-old when he was twenty-one and then invited his wife to
"come live with us and be our sister"), "married" Jane Williams after
Edward Williams drowned with Shelley in 1822. Hogg, who was in England
and didn't take part in any of these Italian adventures, lived to a
ripe old age and became a barrister (lawyer). Shelley became a legend.

Carol, hoping this isn't more than you wanted to know