Rhodri Philipps, 4th Viscount St Davids

Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 4th Viscount St Davids (born 16 September 1966), is a British peer, the eldest son of Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids, and Augusta Victoria Correa y Larraín (a Chilean national, from Santiago).

As of July 2017^[update] Philipps had been declared bankrupt three times, had a criminal conviction for financial mismanagement and two further convictions for menacing communications. On 13 July, he was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.

Besides his viscountcy, which he inherited on the death of his father in 2009, he holds the older titles of Baron Strange of Knockin (1299), Baron Hungerford (1426), and Baron de Moleyns (1445), and the baronetcy of Picton Castle (1621). He is also a co-heir to the barony of Grey de Ruthyn.

Philipps is married to the interior decorator Sarah Louise Butcher, who holds the title Viscountess St Davids. The heir presumptive to the viscountcy is his younger brother Roland.

Philipps has received attention since at least the early 2000s, in relation to his business and legal affairs. He was first declared bankrupt in 2002, and subsequently held directorships in several companies. In September 2008, having been denied bail as a flight risk, Philipps spent more than a year in prison in Nuremberg. Claims were investigated that he used more than £350,000 of company funds on promoting an opera singer, £12,000 to rent a private jet and £5,000 on a shotgun from James Purdey. He was eventually given a two-year suspended prison sentence by a German court for mismanagement of funds related to his construction company Hans Brochier, from which he transferred a seven-figure sum to a newly registered company in the UK in 2005. In 2009 he appealed against the sentence.

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