Part of the firm Taylor and Watt, merchants and ship-owners. Politician. First mayor of Wanganui. Married Margaret Day on 13 Apr 1846 at Wanganui (New Zealand spectator and Cook Strait's guardian, 27 May 1846, p 2). A fountain (the Watt Fountain) was erected in 1881 by the people of Wanganui in recognition of the many services rendered by William Watt Hogg to the city, sited in the middle of the intersection of Ridgway St and Victoria Ave. See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Scholefield Volume 2 p 473-474, and "A Wanganui history" by Maxwell J G Smart and Arthur P Bates, and "Wanganui old settlers" by James Garland Woon, 1902
Watt, William Hogg, 1818-1893
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Manuscript
Legal papers
Date: 1880-1908
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-133
Description: Conveyance, W H Watt to J P Watt, in trust for orphan asylum, Wanganui (1888) and attachment order (interlocutory) between William Milner and Wi Gerrard and Henare Mahuika (1908) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Inward correspondence - I N Watt, W Watt
Date: 1867, 1863
From: Mantell family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0083-398
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 letters). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.
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Inward correspondence
Date: 1882
From: Atkinson, Harry Albert (Sir), 1831-1892 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0091-015
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
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Inward letters - Surnames, Wat - Wau
Date: 1846-1876
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0621
Description: Correspondents: Isaac Newton Watt, Taranaki Bluff, 1846-1867 (6 letters); J H Watt, Auckland, 1860-1874 (3 letters); James Watt, Napier, 1865 (1 letter); W H Watt to Fox, Wanganui, 1869 (1 letter); William Eyre Watts, Sydney, 1874 (1 letter); A Wauchop, Auckland, 1876 (1 letter) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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William Hogg Watt
Date: ca 1870
Reference: PA2-2840
Description: William Hogg Watt, circa 1970. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - W H Watt MHR Wanganui Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.1 x 5.9, mounted on card
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Mr William Hogg Watt
Date: [187-?]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/4-030323-G
Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
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[Hutchison, William] 1820-1905 :Mr John Ballance. No. 18. Over the garden wall. The Wel...
Date: 1882
By: Daily advertiser and Wellington register (Newspaper); Hutchison, William, 1820-1905
Reference: A-095-014
Description: John Ballance on his knees in a garden, a disappointed look on his face. He is holding a butterfly net with a handle marked Experience and a net marked Ability. Beside him are flowers marked Past experience. A large butterfly marked Wanganui is flying away from him and in the background is a shop marked W. H. Watt, General Merchant. Ballance was defeated in the Wanganui seat in the elections of late 1881 by W. H. Watt. Attributed to Hutchison on stylistic grounds Extended Title - Supplement to: The Daily Advertiser, Wellington, 7 January, 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 255 x 229 mm
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Members of the House of Representatives, 1882
Date: 1882
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910
Reference: 1/1-018643-F
Description: Photographic copy of a montage of photographic portraits depicting members of the 1882 House of Representatives. All portraits taken by William Henshaw Clarke of Wellington. Copy of montage made by S P Andrew Ltd. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative