Michael Joseph Hogan

Sir Michael Joseph Patrick Hogan, CMG, QC, was an Irish lawyer and judge in the British Empire. He served as a government lawyer and judge of a number of British colonies and protectorates in the mid 20th Century.

His last position before retirement was as Chief Justice of Hong Kong.

Hogan was born on 15 March 1908 in Dublin, Ireland.

He was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin (1919–1924), and Stonyhurst College, Lancashire (1924–1925). He then attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Legal and Political Science with 1st Class Honours and was awarded the Gold Medal. He then studied for a Bachelor of Laws graduating in 1929.

He represented the University of Dublin in athletics, rugby and tennis.

He married Patricia Galliford of Yorkshire in the Star of the Sea Church, Steamer Point, Aden, in 1945.

He was admitted as a solicitor in Dublin in 1930 and practised with Maxwell and Weldon of Dublin for less than a year. He then moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where he practised for 5 years with the firm of Daly & Figgis.

In 1936, he qualified as a barrister at law at the Irish Bar (King's Inns). He was appointed Chief Magistrate in Palestine and was based in Haifa and then Jerusalem in 1937. Soon after he was appointed Crown Counsel in Palestine.

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