Phyl Rendell

{{Short description|Falkland Islands politician}}

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|honorific-suffix = MBE

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|constituency_AM = Camp

|assembly = Falkland Islands Legislative

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|term_start = 7 November 2013

|term_end = 9 November 2017

|predecessor = Sharon Halford

|successor = Teslyn Barkman

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|birthname = Phyllis Mary Oliver

|party = Nonpartisan

|spouse = Mike Rendell

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|alma_mater = Goldsmiths, University of London

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Phyllis Mary Rendell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}} (née Oliver) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2013 to 2017.{{cite web |url=http://en.mercopress.com/2013/11/08/falklands-election-delivers-two-new-and-most-voted-faces-to-the-legislative-assembly |title=Falklands election delivers two new (and most voted) faces to the Legislative Assembly |author= |date=9 November 2013 |publisher=MercoPress |accessdate=9 November 2013}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://en.mercopress.com/2013/01/04/former-director-of-three-departments-awarded-mbe-for-services-to-falklands-interests |title=Former Director of three Departments awarded MBE 'for services to Falklands' interests' |author= |date=4 January 2013 |publisher=MercoPress |accessdate=9 November 2013}} 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, who was stationed in the Falklands as part of Naval Party 8901. After working for six years in Saudi Arabia, Rendell returned to the Falklands in 1982 shortly after the end of the war.{{cite web |url=http://www.falklands.gov.fk/assembly/Mr_Mike_Rendell.html |title=Mike Rendell bio |author= |date= |work=Falkland Islands Government |publisher=falklands.gov.fk |accessdate=9 November 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729002551/http://www.falklands.gov.fk/assembly/Mr_Mike_Rendell.html |archive-date=2009-07-29}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://en.mercopress.com/2011/04/11/falklands-names-islander-new-mineral-resources-director-beginning-2012 |title=Falklands names Islander new Mineral Resources Director, beginning 2012 |author= |date=11 April 2011 |publisher=MercoPress |accessdate=9 November 2013}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/80171/NY2013_Departmental_List.pdf |title=New Year's Honours List 2013 – departmental list |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=gov.uk |publisher= Her Majesty's Government |accessdate=9 November 2013}} She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in November 2013, but did not seek reelection at the 2017 election.