Margaret Alice Muir (known as Meta) was born in St Petersburg on 4 October 1862, the daughter of Andrew Muir and Alison Philip (nee Bell). She had four younger siblings: Eva and Martin, twins, born 1864 (Martin died in 1918, Eva in 1946), Mary (known as Molly), 1865-1923, and Kenneth, 1867-1922. Martin and Kenneth both worked in the family firm of Muir & Mirrielees until the 1890s. [Muir & Mirrielees was a British owned firm in Russia, best known for its retail shop opposite the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow before the Revolution and still there as Central Universal Stores.] Meta also had 3 half brothers from her mother's first marriage to William Philip, including Walter, who eventually became Managing Director of Muir & Mirrielees. Meta attended the Notting Hill & Bayswater High School. She came up to Girton in Michaelmas 1881 to study history, leaving after two years and a term at the Christmas of 1883. She returned to London where she was to be in charge of running the Muir household at 42 Holland Park for the next six years, though she also spent time travelling with her family, including visits to Russia. On a crossing to New York in 1886 with her father and Eva, she met Stuart Hogg, who had a cattle ranch in Kansas and also worked for the British Land and Mortgage Company of America. They were married on 9 September 1890 at Campden Hill and three weeks later they sailed for America. They returned in 1892 to live in Hambledon, Surrey. Their first daughter, Alison Mary, was born in 1892 and their second, Margaret, in 1895. Meta Muir died in 1943.