George Hoggan
1837–91
Physician and engineer. Appointed engineer in the Indian Navy circa 1856; took part in the China war, 1860, and the Abyssinian campaign, 1868. Left the navy in 1868 and entered medical school in Edinburgh; MB 1872. Practised in London until 1885, when he retired to Nice for health reasons. Campaigner against unrestricted vivisection; gave evidence to the Royal Commission in 1875.
Sources
British Medical Journal, 27 June 1891, p. 1411
Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection
Holmes and Friese 2020
Bibliography
Holmes, Tarquin and Friese, Carrie. 2020. Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object: an analysis of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42: article 50.
Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection: Report of the Royal Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments for scientific purposes; with minutes of evidence and appendix; 1876 (C.1397, C.1397-1) XLI.277, 689. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
