14 Facts About Miriam Stoppard

Miriam, Lady Hogg, known professionally by her former married name Miriam Stoppard, is an English medical doctor, journalist, author and television presenter.

Miriam Stoppard's father, Sidney, was a nurse and her mother, Jenny, worked for the Newcastle school dinners service.

Miriam Stoppard's sister is social justice activist Murreil Hazel Stern.

Miriam Stoppard's father was born Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism.

Miriam Stoppard's mother was a dressmaker who taught Miriam how to make her own clothing, and from an early age she bought remnants of cloth with her pocket-money.

Miriam Stoppard went on to study medicine at King's College, Durham.

Miriam Stoppard became a research director and then managing director in the pharmaceutical industry for Syntex.

Miriam Stoppard became well known during the 1970s and 1980s as a television presenter on scientific and medical programmes such as Don't Ask Me and Where There's Life.

Miriam Stoppard has written several books about health, including the Children's Medical Handbook, but particularly on the subject of women's health.

Miriam Stoppard writes on health issues and acts as an agony aunt for the Daily Mirror, having previously answered readers' letters for TV Times magazine.

Miriam Stoppard was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to healthcare and charity.

From 1972 to 1992 Miriam Stoppard was married to the playwright Tom Miriam Stoppard, with whom she had two sons.

Miriam Stoppard married the industrialist Sir Christopher Hogg in 1997, and was married to him until his death in 2021.

Miriam Stoppard has two stepdaughters from her second husband's first marriage.