BOOBBYER, Hon Juliet Honor (nee RODD) 1930 - 2023
135 views
Skip to first unread message
Henry W
Apr 30, 2023, 6:33:26 AM4/30/23
to Peerage News
She was dau of the 2nd Baron RENNELL (1895 - 1978) and Hon Mary Constance Vivian Smith (1901 - 1981), dau of 1st Baron BICESTER. She m 1957 Brian BOOBBYER and had issue: 2 sons as in the obit.
Obituaries: Juliet Boobbyer, artist, writer and peace campaigner
The Hon. Juliet Boobbyer. Born: 28 October, 1930 in London. Died: 24 January, 2023 in Kington, Herefordshire, aged 92
Juliet Boobbyer was a woman of deep personal faith, who believed that the Christian history of Britain could be a resource for building bridges between the nations of the United Kingdom and also with Ireland.
Her play with music, Columba, told the story of the sixth century Irish abbot and saint, who founded the abbey on the island of Iona which became a centre of faith and learning for the whole of Europe.
[...]
Juliet Honor Rodd was born in London on 28 October 1930. She was the second of four daughters of explorer and banker Francis Rodd who was from 1941 the Lord Rennell of Rodd. He was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories) in 1943.
In 1938, the family bought and renovated Rodd Court, a Jacobian manor at Presteigne in the Hindwell Valley, on the border of Herefordshire and Radnorshire. Rodd Hurst parish dates back to the Doomsday Book, and the Rodd family gained its name from the parish.
In 1940, Juliet and her sisters were evacuated with their mother, the artist Mary Rodd (neé Smith), to the USA. Mary, a granddaughter of Lord and Lady Antrim, had trained at the Slade School of Art in London.
The girls went to school at Friends’ Academy on Long Island. In 1943 it was considered safe enough for them to return to England, though a ship in their convey was sunk by a German U-boat. Returning to live at Rodd Court, the girls would ride their horses around the countryside.
Juliet went to Westonbirt School in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. She excelled academically and was offered a place to read zoology at Oxford.
However, by then their mother Mary had encountered the 1930s Christian movement the Oxford Group, which its founder, Frank Buchman, relaunched in 1938 as a campaign for “moral and spiritual rearmament” (MRA). His aim was to counter the threat of military rearmament posed by Hitler.
Juliet felt called to work with the movement, including its post-war work of reconciliation at its international centre in Caux, Switzerland, which opened in 1946.
Juliet turned down her place at Oxford to join this endeavour, much to the consternation of her father, though he was later reconciled to her decision.
The work took her to many countries, including back to the USA, where she married her co-worker, the former England rugby international Brian Boobbyer, in 1957.
The couple spent some years in Asia, particularly in India where they worked closely with Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. In Japan and the Philippines, their major focus was on peacebuilding between the former enemies.
[...]
As Brian’s health began to fade in the early 1990s, they moved to Little Rodd, which Juliet had inherited in 1982, next door to Rodd Court. For her it was like coming home and she threw herself into life in the locality.
[...]
After Brian’s death in 2011, she visited her sister Rachel in Australia and her son Mark in South Africa where he and his wife Cathy ran a boarding school. [...]
She is survived by her two sons, Philip, a historian at the University of Kent, and Mark, warden of St Columba’s College, Dublin, and by five grandchildren.
The Hon. Juliet Boobbyer. Born: 28 October, 1930 in London. Died: 24 January, 2023 in Kington, Herefordshire, aged 92
Juliet Boobbyer was a woman of deep personal faith, who believed that the Christian history of Britain could be a resource for building bridges between the nations of the United Kingdom and also with Ireland.
Her play with music, Columba, told the story of the sixth century Irish abbot and saint, who founded the abbey on the island of Iona which became a centre of faith and learning for the whole of Europe.
[...]
Juliet Honor Rodd was born in London on 28 October 1930. She was the second of four daughters of explorer and banker Francis Rodd who was from 1941 the Lord Rennell of Rodd. He was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories) in 1943.
In 1938, the family bought and renovated Rodd Court, a Jacobian manor at Presteigne in the Hindwell Valley, on the border of Herefordshire and Radnorshire. Rodd Hurst parish dates back to the Doomsday Book, and the Rodd family gained its name from the parish.
In 1940, Juliet and her sisters were evacuated with their mother, the artist Mary Rodd (neé Smith), to the USA. Mary, a granddaughter of Lord and Lady Antrim, had trained at the Slade School of Art in London.
The girls went to school at Friends’ Academy on Long Island. In 1943 it was considered safe enough for them to return to England, though a ship in their convey was sunk by a German U-boat. Returning to live at Rodd Court, the girls would ride their horses around the countryside.
Juliet went to Westonbirt School in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. She excelled academically and was offered a place to read zoology at Oxford.
However, by then their mother Mary had encountered the 1930s Christian movement the Oxford Group, which its founder, Frank Buchman, relaunched in 1938 as a campaign for “moral and spiritual rearmament” (MRA). His aim was to counter the threat of military rearmament posed by Hitler.
Juliet felt called to work with the movement, including its post-war work of reconciliation at its international centre in Caux, Switzerland, which opened in 1946.
Juliet turned down her place at Oxford to join this endeavour, much to the consternation of her father, though he was later reconciled to her decision.
The work took her to many countries, including back to the USA, where she married her co-worker, the former England rugby international Brian Boobbyer, in 1957.
The couple spent some years in Asia, particularly in India where they worked closely with Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. In Japan and the Philippines, their major focus was on peacebuilding between the former enemies.
[...]
As Brian’s health began to fade in the early 1990s, they moved to Little Rodd, which Juliet had inherited in 1982, next door to Rodd Court. For her it was like coming home and she threw herself into life in the locality.
[...]
After Brian’s death in 2011, she visited her sister Rachel in Australia and her son Mark in South Africa where he and his wife Cathy ran a boarding school. [...]
She is survived by her two sons, Philip, a historian at the University of Kent, and Mark, warden of St Columba’s College, Dublin, and by five grandchildren.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages