Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg, Baroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe (born 14 May 1946) is an English economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a

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company.

Biography

She was born Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, her father being

John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, PC, DL (2 June 1908 – 11 July 1998) was a British Conservative politician. Early life He was the only son of Conservative politician Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP and his wife Annie Dug ...

, a former

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and

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. She attended Miss Ironside's School in Kensington. She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot. Later she attended

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at the

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where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). While at

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, she edited '' Cherwell'', the student newspaper. Through her 1968 marriage to Member of Parliament

Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe (born 5 February 1945), is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foo ...

, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a

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in 1995, she is Baroness Hogg in her own right.

Career

Journalism

She was an economics editor for ''

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'' newspaper. She was also an early presenter of ''

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'', but her voice, with its uncertainty of pitch, was felt by many viewers to be a distraction. At this time she portrayed

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in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.

Politics

Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major. With

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, she wrote about the Major years in her book ''Too Close to Call''. In 1995, she was granted a

and now sits as a

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in the

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as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire.

Business

As Chairman of

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from 2002, she became the first woman to chair a

company. In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of the

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. She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited. Other current and former board memberships include the

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, the

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, P&O Princess, and

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Personal life

Hogg is married to

and together they have two children: * Hon. Charlotte Mary Hogg (born 26 August 1970), previously in charge of retail operations at

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, in 2013 she was appointed first Chief Operating Officer at the

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, under

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, and from March 2017, she served briefly as Deputy Governor (Markets and Banking) before resigning from both positions for failure to declare that her brother was employed in the banking industry. * Hon. Quintin John Neil Martin Hogg (born 12 October 1973),

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to the viscountcy

Other activities

She is a trustee of the school where she was educated and also a trustee of the charitable Trusthouse Foundation.

Titles

* Miss Sarah Boyd-Carpenter (1946–1968) * The Hon. Mrs Douglas Hogg (1968–1972) * The Hon. Mrs Hogg (1972–1995) * The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hogg (1995–2001) * The Rt Hon. The Baroness Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham (2001–)

Bibliography

*''Too Close to Call: John Major, Power and Politics in No.10'' by Sarah Hogg & Jonathan Hill, Little, Brown (1995),

External links

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