Baroness Couttie (1962-2022)

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She has died

[Henry W]

From Hansard of 13 December

The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)
My Lords, I regret to inform the House of the death of the noble Baroness, Lady Couttie, yesterday. On behalf of the House, I extend our condolences to her family and friends.

Her date of death is accordingly 12 December. She was created a life peer in 2016, sitting as a Conservative.  She m 2002 and had issue (twins - not listed in Debrett's database, but identified in Wikipedia and other public statements).

On Tuesday, 13 December 2022 at 15:27:53 UTC sven_me...@web.de wrote:

She has died

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times 15 Dec 2022:

Baroness Couttie obituary
Investment banker who served as leader of Westminster city council and was dubious about being compared to Boris Johnson
...Philippa Marion Roe was born in Hampstead, north London, in 1962, the eldest of three children of James Roe, a merchant banker, and his wife Dame Marion (née Keyte), who was MP for Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, from 1983 to 2005 and environment minister in the 1980s.
Pippa, as she was known, was educated at Roedean School, East Sussex, and read medical psychology at the University of St Andrews, claiming to have gone there on a whim to follow a friend who had been seduced by the idea after meeting students busking in the south of France. “We entertained ourselves,” she told the Evening Standard of her student days. “One gave dinner parties and had fun on the beach and made picnics. That created a very strong bond...
...she had featured as one of the “girls in pearls” on the frontispiece of Country Life when her marriage to John Ricketts was announced in 1987 [reg Q2 London]...
...Her cause was perhaps not helped in the eyes of some constituency party members by her romantic entanglement with Lord Brocket, whom she met on a parliamentary skiing trip with her family. The attachment did not last: he instead took up residency as a guest of Her Majesty after admitting defrauding General Accident of £4.5 million in a scam involving three Ferraris and a Maserati that he claimed were stolen from his Hertfordshire estate...
...Her first marriage was dissolved and in 2002 she married Stephen Couttie, then a partner of Collabrium Capital and now chief financial officer at Railsr (Railsbank), the financial services company. Months later she had breast cancer diagnosed, which led to six months of chemotherapy, limiting her prospects of having children. Yet after trying various fertility treatments across the world she gave birth in August 2005 to twins, Angus and Genevieve, who survive her with her husband...
...David Cameron gave her a seat in the House of Lords, where she was known as Baroness Couttie and served as a government whip. She stepped down as leader of Westminster council at the end of 2016...
Baroness Couttie (Philippa Roe), leader of Westminster city council, 2012-17, was born on September 25, 1962. She died of cancer on December 12, 2022, aged 60
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/baroness-couttie-obituary-9kgpl0bc0

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph & Times of 17 Dec 2022: COUTTIE We regret to announce the death of Baroness Couttie of Downe, Philippa Marion (née Roe). She died peacefully at home on 12th December after a long battle with an illness which she bravely fought. The funeral will be a private service for her family, and a memorial service to celebrate her life will be held in 2023. Condolence letters can be sent to Stephen Couttie, 75 Eaton Terrace, London…