Fleur de Rhé-Philipe

Fleur de Rhé-Philipe (born 1940) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. Before 2009, she was a member of Wiltshire County Council representing first the Upper Wylye division and later Westbury Laverton and was the Cabinet member for Environment, Transport & Economic Development. Since June 2009 she has been a member of the new Wiltshire Council representing Warminster Without and is again a cabinet member.

Born in Surrey, Fleur de Rhé-Philipe is one of the two daughters of Major-General Arthur Terence de Rhé-Philipe CB OBE (1905–1971), late Royal Engineers, She has lived at Upton Scudamore since the 1960s and was the founding chairman of the Warminster and District Riding Club, which went on to become the South Wiltshire Riding Club.

With an administrative career in civil engineering and urban regeneration, from 1992 to 2007 de Rhé-Philipe was the Company Secretary of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, during which time she gained a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £25M for the canal.

She was first elected to Wiltshire County Council in 1997, representing the Upper Wylye county division until 2005. In that year, her area was divided by an electoral review between two new divisions, and in May 2005 de Rhé-Philipe was elected for the new Westbury Laverton and Shearwater. Since the 2009 election to Wiltshire Council, her new Warminster Without division includes the parishes of Brixton Deverill, Chapmanslade, Corsley, Horningsham, Kingston Deverill, Longbridge Deverill, Maiden Bradley, Sutton Veny and Upton Scudamore.

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