Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham

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Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham (born May 14, 1946) is an English economist and a journalist.

Born Sarah Elizabeth Mary Boyd-Carpenter, the daughter of the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General Lord Boyd-Carpenter. She attended the foremost Roman Catholic convent school in England, St Mary's School Ascot, although it is not clear if she herself is a Roman Catholic^{[citation needed]}. Following her schooling there, she was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

She was an economics editor for The Independent newspaper and was the head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for Sir John Major^[1]. She wrote about the Major years in her book Too Close to Call. Other roles include (former) Governor of the BBC, Chairman of the 3i Group, and current/former board memberships of various companies including P&O, P&O Princess and Banco Santander.^[2]

Through her 1968 marriage to Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, she is Viscountess Hailsham. However, following the granting of a life peerage, she sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Hogg of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire^[3].

She is a Fellow of Eton College.

She was 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]

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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 0316877166

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