Mary Alice Hogg

Mary Alice Hogg was the daughter of Charles Swinton Hogg, Administrator General of Bengal, and Harriet Anne Stirling. She married Colonel Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay of Whitehill and Tillicoutry, son of Robert Balfour Wardlaw-Ramsay and Lady Louisa Jane Hay, on 17 February 1885. She died on 15 January 1951.  She is portrayed with her daughter, Erica, in this painting by John Horsburgh, dated 1887 (Erica is possibly two.) The portrait of her husband is a pendant to it. As an elderly lady, she was famous for having a Black Box, in which she could discern the future.  Her younger relatives found her uncanny and nicknamed her the Hogg.