Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Janet Odey 1934-2024

 Janet Odey (nee Carver), died 4 October, 2024, aged 90.

She was born at Driffield in 1934, a daughter of John Henton Carver (1902-68) and his wife the former Juliet Clitherow (1906-1969), scion of the Clitherow and Gurney landed gentry families; and married in 1954, (George) Richard Odey (1929-1993), of The Kennels, Hotham Hall, son of George William Odey, CBE, DL (1900-85), sometime Conservative MP for Howden and later Beverley, and his first wife the former Dorothy Christian Moir (1898-1975), by whom she had issue, a son, (Robin) Crispin William Odey (born 1959), the hedge fund manager and founder of Odey Asset Management, who married firstly 1985 (div 1986), Prudence Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch, and married 2ndly, 1991 (div 2021) Nichola Pease, a scion of the Pease baronets, and two daughters, Caroline Jane Odey (1956-2014), who married in 1982, the Hon Henry Montgomery (born 1954) (now the 3rd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein), and Virginia Odey (born 1962).

Her mother, Juliet Clitherow (born 3 Oct, 1906), was the elder of the three daughters, of Lieut-Col Thomas Claud Gurney, DSO, DL (1880-1963) of the Life Guards, sometime Private Secretary to HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught. Lt-Col Gurney, scion of the Gurneys of North Runcton assumed the surname and arms of Clitherow in lieu of his patronymic, on succeeding to the Hotham Hall estate. He married in 1906, Muriel Frances Sykes (who died in 1937).

Janet Odey's paternal grandfather was Maj. William Henton Carver (1868-1961), Conservative MP for Howdenshire 1926-45.

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