MR. G. HOGBEN, C.M.G.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 8

MR. G. HOGBEN, C.M.G.

Mr. 6. Hogben was born in 1858. and educated at the Congregational School. Lewishain, and the University School, Nottingham. ■ Ho was awarded the gold medal of the Boyal Geographical Society in 1871. After leaving school he entered the English Civil Service, and attained the position of junior auditor in the Accountant and ControllerGeneral's Department. He left the Service, to enter Cambridge University, where he graduated B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1881. He was mathematical scholar.and prizeman at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, and also Exhibitioner of the Goldsmiths' Company,'finally graduating with first-class honours m mathematics. ■ •

Mr. Hogben entered the teaching profession as mathematical and science master at Oldenham Grammar School, to, which appointment he went immediately after leaving Cambridge. .He was selected by Commissioners in England to be mathematical and science i master in tho Christchurch Boys' High School, when the school was founded in 1881. He held that post until 1886, in which year ho was made Inspector of Schools in North Canterbury under the North Canterbury Education Board. Li 1899 he was appointed headmaster of the Timaru High School, and he had control of that school until 1899, when he was appointed Inspector-General of Schools and Secretary for Education. This position Mr. Hogben has held ever since, and the years nave not been idle ones for him. Several Education Bills have been passed by Parliament making very important changes in the New Zea-' land system of education,, both on the administrative and purely educational side. It may be assumed that Mr. Hogben, as chief expert for tho Department, had more than a little to do with the framing df those Bills. ■ Mr. Hogben has held office in numerous educational and scientific societies. He was president of the New Zealand Educational Institute in 1886, President of the Canterbury Philosophical Society in 1887, secretary from 1891. until the present time ofvthe Seismological Committee of the Australasian Association, president of the Home Read-, ing Union for several years, and he is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He represented New Zealand at the Empire Education Conference in London- in 1907, at the International Conference of School Hygiene, the International Conference on the Teaching of the Deaf, and the International Conference on Moral Education, all in the same year.

Among the best known of Mr. Hogben's publications is a French text book, "Methode Naturelle," for the uses of school classes. He has also written numbers of papers on earthquakes,' of which phenomena lie has made a special study.