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Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham

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The Right Honourable
The Viscountess Hailsham
Official portrait, 2018
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
3 February 1995
Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit
In office
28 November 1990 – 5 July 1995
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded by Brian Griffiths
Succeeded by Norman Blackwell
Personal details
Born
Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter

(1946-05-14) 14 May 1946 (age 78)
Political party
Spouse
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(m. 1968)​
Children2
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, Baroness Hogg (née Boyd-Carpenter; born 14 May 1946), is a British economist, journalist, and politician. She was the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.

Early life and education

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Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter was born on 14 May 1946.[1] Her father was John Boyd-Carpenter (later Baron Boyd-Carpenter), who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1962 to 1964. She attended Miss Ironside's School in Kensington.[2] She then went to the Roman Catholic girls' boarding school St Mary's School Ascot.[citation needed] Later she attended Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford where she read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).[3] While at Oxford, she edited the student newspaper Cherwell.

Career

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Journalism

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Hogg was an economics editor for The Independent. 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.[4] At this time she portrayed Margaret Thatcher in a television docudrama of negotiations between the UK and Irish governments.[5]

Politics

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Hogg was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major.[6] With Jonathan Hopkin Hill, she wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call.

On 3 February 1995, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hogg, of Kettlethorpe, in the county of Lincolnshire.[7] She was as a Conservative member of the House of Lords until May 2010 and thereafter has sat as a crossbencher.[8]

Business

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As Chairman of 3i Group from 2002, she became the first woman to chair a FTSE 100 company.[9] In 2010 she was appointed the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.[10] She is also the chairman of Frontier Economics Limited.[9] Other current and former board memberships include the Financial Conduct Authority, BG Group, the BBC, P&O Cruises, P&O Princess, and Eton College.[11]

Personal life

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Hogg married Douglas Hogg in 1968. They have a son and a daughter.

Through her marriage, Hogg has been titled Viscountess Hailsham since her husband's succession to his hereditary peerage in 2001, and Baroness Hailsham of Kettlethorpe since his own creation as a life peer in 2015.[12] She sits in the House of Lords under her suo jure title, Baroness Hogg.[8]

Other activities

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

Bibliography

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  • Too Close to Call: John Major, Power and Politics in No.10 by Sarah Hogg & Jonathan Hill, Little, Brown (1995), ISBN 0-316-87716-6

References

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  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 14 May 2013. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2014. Baroness Hogg, Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, 67
  2. ^ Ironside, Virginia (9 January 1995). "A funny little girl in socks and sandals". The Independent. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. ^ "LMH, Oxford - Prominent Alumni". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  4. ^ Guardian 6 December 1984, Nancy Banks-Smith, "No News Bad News"
  5. ^ "World in Action". IMDB.
  6. ^ Gribben, Roland (19 May 2001). "Hogg makes history as FTSE 100 chair". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
  7. ^ "No. 53948". The London Gazette. 8 February 1995. p. 1817.
  8. ^ a b "Parliamentary career for Baroness Hogg". UK Parliament. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  9. ^ a b Connon, Heather (30 November 2003). "Baroness of the boardrooms". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  10. ^ FRC Board Archived 23 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Financial Reporting Council. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  11. ^ Stern, Melanie (27 September 2010). "FRC's Baroness Hogg on the new corporate governance code". Financial Director. London, United Kingdom: Incisive Media Investments Limited. Retrieved 24 November 2010. Hogg became chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in May, bringing to bear more than two decades among London's top business figureheads, from serving her time as governor of the BBC, chairing private equity group 3i and serving on the boards of P&O, Bg group and Banco Santander, punctuated by a stint in John Major's policy unit.
  12. ^ "No. 61383". The London Gazette. 16 October 2015. p. 19454.
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