Lord Phillips of Sudbury OBE 1939 -2023

[Brian Coleman]

The death is being reported of Lord Phillips of Sudbury a former Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords who tried to retire in 2006 and finally did so when the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 was passed 

[Henry W]

According to various obits, including: https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/23449861.family-pay-tribute-lord-andrew-phillips-sudbury/

he died Easter Sunday, so 9 April 2023.

[colinp]

Obit in the Telegraph -  Lord Phillips of Sudbury, Liberal Democrat peer who warned his party about European federalism – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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Lord Phillips of Sudbury, Liberal Democrat peer who warned his party against European federalism – obituary

'Ceding our own sovereignty' to spite Mrs Thatcher would be 'irreversible and profoundly undemocratic,' he told the party conference in 1990

Lord Phillips of Sudbury, who has died aged 84, was a prominent solicitor and Liberal Democrat peer in the Victorian tradition of muscular high-mindedness and earnestness of purpose.

A one-time Labour candidate, he switched to the Liberals in the mid-1970s and stood unsuccessfully in a 1977 by-election, in European elections in 1979 and in 1983 for the Alliance in the general election…..

Andrew Wyndham Phillips was born in the Suffolk village of Long Melford on March 15 1939 and was educated at Uppingham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Law. He qualified as a solicitor in 1964 and became a founding partner in Bates, Wells and Braithwaite in 1970….

Andrew Phillips was raised to the peerage as Lord Phillips of Sudbury in 1998.

He married, in 1968, Penelope Bennett, by whom he had a son and two daughters.

Lord Phillips of Sudbury, born March 15 1939, died April 9 2023