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Hugh Ruthven Pym (born 18 October 1959) is a British journalist and author. A financial and political journalist by origin, he currently works for
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as its health editor.


Early life and education

Hugh Pym was born on 18 October 1959 in
Malmesbury Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the upp ...
,
Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
. He was educated at Marlborough College, an independent school in Wiltshire. He went on to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...
(BA) in 1981. He undertook post-graduate study in Broadcast Journalism at Falmouth College and gained a Certificate in Journalism Cert.Jour His great-grandfather was Walter Pym, a bishop, and his great-uncle was Leslie Ruthven Pym, a
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MP, whose son was
Francis Pym, Baron Pym Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in various Cabinet positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including Foreign, Defence and Northern Ireland Secretary, and Lead ...
, who was notably
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, known as the foreign secretary, is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Seen as ...
during the Falklands War. His grandfather was Leslie's brother Thomas Wentworth Pym, a vicar. His mother was a member of the Clark family (who own
Clarks Shoes C. & J. Clark International Ltd, doing business as Clarks, is a British international shoe manufacturer and retailer. It was founded in 1825 by Cyrus Clark in the village of Street, Somerset, England, where the company's headquarters remain. ...
, with Hugh being a minor shareholder).


Career

Pym began his career in radio at Viking Radio in Hull, and was a
BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering ...
journalist from 1986 to 1987. He was the producer of ''Business Daily'' at
Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
from 1987 to 1988, a correspondent with ITN from 1988 to 1998, and a freelance broadcaster with Sky Television from 1999 to 2000. He rejoined the
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in 2001 after a spell of work at Sky News. He was a BBC special correspondent covering
economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
until 2008, when he took on the role of acting economics editor during the maternity leave of
Stephanie Flanders Stephanie Hope Flanders (born 5 August 1968) is a British economist and journalist, currently the head of Bloomberg News Economics. She was previously chief market strategist for Britain and Europe for J.P. Morgan Asset Management,Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Tony B ...
's first year in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, also co-written with Kochan. His latest book is ''Inside the Banking Crisis'' (published by Bloomsbury in 2014). Pym was the recipient of the 2020 '' British Journalism Review'' Charles Wheeler award in recognition of his coverage of the
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. It was bestowed upon him in a ceremony on 16 November, when a keynote speech was delivered by
Sir Peter Bazalgette Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (; born 22 May 1953) is a British television executive and producer, also active in the fields of the arts and the broader Creative Industries. Currently he is co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council, pro Chancel ...
. On 8 December, Pym
tweeted Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...
that the second person to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was a man named William Shakespeare from
Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...
. The tweet went viral due to the man's name and home county being the same as that of the renowned playwright
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
.


Parliamentary candidacy

In the 2001 general election Pym stood as the
Liberal Democrat Several political parties from around the world have been called the Liberal Democratic Party or Liberal Democrats. These parties usually follow a liberal democratic ideology. Active parties Former parties See also *Liberal democracy *Lib ...
parliamentary candidate in the
North Wiltshire North Wiltshire was a local government district in Wiltshire, England, formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal boroughs of Calne, Chippenham, and Malmesbury along with Calne and Chippenham Rural District, Cricklade and Wootton Bas ...
constituency. He achieved 20,212 votes but lost to the
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James Gray.


Personal life

Pym is married to
Dumbarton Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990. Dumbarton was the ca ...
-born Susan Neill. He has three children – two sons and one daughter – and is an Elder in the
Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...
.


Publications

*''The Guinness Affair: Anatomy of a Scandal'' (London, Christopher Helm Publishers, 1987, ), with Nick Kochan *''Unit and Investment Trusts'' (Allied Dunbar Money Guides)'' (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1988, ) *''Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power'' (London, Bloomsbury, 1998, ), with Nick Kochan *''Inside the Banking Crisis'' (London, Bloomsbury, 2014, )


References


External links


Profile at BBC News
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pym, Hugh 1959 births Living people People educated at Marlborough College Writers from Malmesbury Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford ITN newsreaders and journalists BBC newsreaders and journalists English television journalists Liberal Democrats (UK) parliamentary candidates People educated at Cothill House