Phyllis Mary Rendell (
née
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Oliver) is a
Falkland Islands politician who served as a
Member
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of the
Legislative Assembly for the
Camp constituency
Camp is a constituency of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands which has been in existence since 1977. The constituency of Camp consists of all parts of the territory which lie more than 3.5 miles from the spire of Christ Church Cat ...
from
2013
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to
2017
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.
Rendell was born Phyllis Mary Oliver to farmer John Oliver in the Falkland Islands and attended Darwin Boarding School before completing her education in
Derbyshire, going on to study at
Goldsmiths, University of London.
She qualified as a teacher in the UK and returned to the Falklands to work in Stanley as a teacher.
In the 1970s, she met and married
Mike Rendell
Michael Rendell (born 1944) is a British-born Falkland Islands politician and former Royal Marine who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2005 until 2009. Rendell was elected as a Member of the Legislati ...
, who was stationed in the Falklands as part of
Naval Party 8901
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.
After working for six years in
Saudi Arabia, Rendell returned to the Falklands in 1982 shortly after the end of
the war.
In 1984, she became Director of the Camp Education Department in the
Falkland Islands Government and then Director of Education in 1988.
She represented the Falklands during negotiations between
Argentina and the
United Kingdom in
Buenos Aires in 1995 and
London in 1996 over
oil exploration in the
South Atlantic.
Rendell went on to be appointed Director of Oil, and later Director of Mineral Resources,
retiring in 2012 to become Chair of the Falklands Offshore Hydrocarbons Environmental Forum. In January 2013, Rendell was made a
Member of the Order of the British Empire in the
New Year Honours for services to Falkland Islands interests.
She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in
November 2013, but did not seek reelection at the
2017 election.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
Falkland Islands schoolteachers
Falkland Islands MLAs 2013–2017
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Falkland Islands women in politics
21st-century British women politicians
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