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'''Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (17 February 1833 – 23 March 1921<ref> {{cite web | url = http://thepeerage.com/p2897.htm#i28969 | title = Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg | accessdate = 2011-04-01 | publisher = thePeerage.com}}</ref>) was a [[British people|British]] civil servant in the [[Indian Civil Services]] of [[British India]]. He was born in 1833 in [[Delhi]] to Sir James Hogg, formerly a director of the [[British East India Company]] and the Registrar of the [[Calcutta High Court]]. In 1853, at the age of twenty, Stuart Hogg entered the Indian Civil Services. During the [[Sepoy Mutiny]], he was posted in the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]. Later, he joined the Bengal government as the [[Kolkata Police|Police Commissioner of Calcutta]] where he established the Detective Department. From 1863 to 1877 he was the Chairman of the [[Calcutta Municipal Corporation]]. In 1875, he was [[knighthood|knighted]].