Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham
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The Right Honourable The Viscountess Hailsham |
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| Born |
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter 14 May 1946 |
| Political party |
Conservative (Before 1995) Crossbench (1995–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg (born 14 May 1946), through marriage the Viscountess Hailsham, is an English economist and journalist. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.
She was born as Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, her father being John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General. She attended the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot, although not herself Catholic. Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).
Through her 1968 marriage to Member of Parliament Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a life peerage in 1995, she is Baroness Hogg in her own right.
She was an economics editor for The Independent newspaper. She was also an early presenter of Channel 4 News, but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction. At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.
Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major. With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.
In 1995, she was granted a life peerage and now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire.
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