Educational Reform
Having made his fortune, he became concerned with Christian-motivated philanthropy. London at the time suffered from social conditions now summarised in the single word "Dickensian". Hogg turned his energy to educational reform: in 1864 he founded York Place Ragged School. With Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (1847–1923, later 11th Baron Kinnaird) and Thomas Henry William Pelham (1847–1916), he rented rooms in York Place (formerly Of Alley), off The Strand in central London, for a boys' school, initially a day school, which subsequently began to open in the evenings. In 1882, he founded the Young Men's Christian Institute, which was renamed the Regent Street Polytechnic (incorporating the Royal Polytechnic Institution). Regent Street Polytechnic was later part of London Polytechnic and is now the University of Westminster. It is the largest provider of adult education in London, and its headquarters are still at the same location on Regent Street.
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