William Hogg was born in 1926, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 10 October 2003, in Fall River, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 77.
English (northern England and Scotland): nickname for a swineherd or shepherd, from Middle English hog(ge) (Old English hogg) denoting either a pig, especially a castrated one, or a young sheep before its first shearing (the latter sense is most likely in northern England).
German (Högg): topographic name, a variant of Heck 1, found chiefly in Bavaria.
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