Mollie Phillips

Mollie Phillips OBE
Personal information
Full name	Mollie Doreen Phillips
Country represented	Great Britain
Born	(1907-07-27)27 July 1907 London, England
Died	15 December 1994(1994-12-15) (aged 87) Lambeth, Greater London
Height	1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)
Former partner	Rodney Murdoch
Medal record Representing  United Kingdom Pairs Figure skating European Championships 1933 London Pairs

Mollie Doreen Phillips OBE (27 July 1907 – 15 December 1994) was a British figure skater and Olympic judge. She is regarded as a pioneer in the sport. Phillips was the first woman to carry a national flag at the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games when she led out Great Britain at the 1932 Winter Olympics. In 1961 she became High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire, the first woman to hold the title.

Mollie Doreen Phillips was born in London on 27 July 1907. Her father was George Phillips.

She studied Law at Lincoln's Inn but focussed much of her time on figure skating. In 1949 she became the Cardiganshire County Commissioner for the Girl Guides Association. She held a variety of other public appointments, including Justice of the Peace, a member of the local police authority, and a General Commissioner of Income Tax. In 1949 Phillips became the manager of a dairy farm and found a new career as a breeder of dairy cattle.

Phillips died in Lambeth, Greater London on 15 December 1994 at the age of 87.

Phillips was trained by Howard Nicholson and paired up with Rodney Murdoch to compete. In 1933 they skated as a partnership, winning the British championship and then bronze at the European Figure Skating Championships. After Murdoch retired she focussed on the singles events, achieving some success in British and European competitions.

Phillips competed at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York and the 1936 Games at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She competed in the women's singles event of the figure skating, finishing 9th and 11th respectively.

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