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Friday, July 03, 2026

Baroness Phillips of Worth Matravers (died 2026)

The Baroness Phillips of Worth Matravers died 24 June, 2026.

She was the former Christylle Marie-Thérèse Doreau, daughter of Maurice Doreau, of Algiers, and married firstly  _____ Rouffiac, by whom she had issue; and married 2ndly, 1972, the life peer, the Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, KG, PC (born 21 January, 1938).

Her husband was the inaugural President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, holding office between October 2009 and October 2012. He was the last Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the first Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to be head of the English judiciary when that function was transferred from the Lord Chancellor in April 2006. Before his chief justiceship, he was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

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