Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips

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Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, JP (born 12 August 1910 – died 14 August 1992) was a British Labour politician.

Born as Norah Mary Lusher, she was educated at Hampton Training College as a teacher. She became active in her local Fulham Labour Party and in 1930 married fellow Fulham activist Morgan Phillips, a former miner and later the formidable General Secretary of the Labour Party 1944–1961. They had a son and a daughter, Gwyneth Dunwoody, who became a long-serving Labour Member of Parliament.

Phillips was a long-serving London magistrate and co-founder of the National Association of Women's Clubs (1935). She was made a life peer in 1964 as Baroness Phillips, of Fulham in the County of Greater London and was the first female government whip in the House of Lords, as Baroness in Waiting 1965–70.

She championed consumer issues and in 1965 founded the Housewives Trust to help shoppers obtain better value for money. In 1977 she became director of the Association for the Prevention of Theft in Shops.^{[citation needed]}

She served as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London 1978–85.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Beswick	Lady-in-Waiting 1965–1970	Succeeded by New government
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Lord Elworthy	Lord Lieutenant of Greater London 1978–1986	Succeeded by Edwin Bramall