Personal Life
Simon Hoggart was born on 26 May 1946 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and educated at Hymers College in Hull, Wyggeston Boys' School in Leicester, and then King's College, Cambridge. He is the son of the sociologist Richard Hoggart and Mary Holt Hoggart. His brother is The Times television critic Paul Hoggart. He lives in South London with his wife, Alyson, a clinical psychologist and their two children, Amy and Richard.
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