DUNDAS, James (Jamie) Frederick Trevor 1950-2023

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From the Telegraph of 5 Sep 2023: DUNDAS James Frederick Trevor. Jamie died on 27th August 2023 in France. His beloved wife Jenny and children Clare, Lucy and David, were all at his bedside. He will be hugely missed. Private family funeral. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St Luke's & Christ Church, Sydney Street, London, at 11.30 a.m. Tuesday 7th November.

He was s of Group Capt Sir Hugh Spencer Lisle DUNDAS CBE DSO DFC 1920-95 (2xgt gs of 1st Earl of ZETLAND 1766-1839 who was gf of 1st Marquess of ZETLAND 1844-1929) and Hon Enid Rosamond LAWRENCE 1924-2023 d of 1^st Baron OAKSEY & 3^rd Baron TREVETHIN 1880-1971 and Marjorie Frances Alice OBE TD ATS 1898-1984 d of Cdr Charles Napier ROBINSON TD RN 1849-1936 by his 19 Aug 1882 m (St George’s, Bloomsbury) to Alice c1862- d of Benjamin WILSON Esq. He m 1979 Jennifer Ann b 1947 reg Q4 Surrey d of Lt-Col John Clendon DAUKES 1916-2000 and Elizabeth 1919-2006 d of Capt Conno DOUGLAS DSO RN, and had a son and two daus as above.

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Obit in the Telegraph -  Jamie Dundas, financier who oversaw the construction of Hong Kong’s new airport – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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Jamie Dundas, financier who oversaw the construction of Hong Kong International airport – obituary

He also brought gravitas and high-level governance skills to Jupiter’s boardroom through the financial crisis of 2008

Jamie Dundas, who has died aged 72, was chairman of Jupiter, the investment management group, after a wide-ranging international career in banking and corporate finance.

Dundas made his name in the City as a director of the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell before moving on to be finance director of Hong Kong Airport Authority from 1992 to 1996….

A fifth-generation descendant of the politician Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland (1766-1839), James Frederick Trevor Dundas was born on November 4 1950 to Group Captain Sir Hugh “Cocky” Dundas and his wife Enid, née Lawrence, daughter of the 1st Lord Oaksey, the senior British judge at the Nuremberg trials. Sir Hugh was a highly decorated wartime Spitfire pilot who was later chairman of the Rediffusion and Thames television companies.

Jamie was educated at Eton and went on to read law at New College, Oxford, where he also learnt to fly. Encouraged by his mother to follow in Lord Oaksey’s footsteps, he was called to the Bar of Inner Temple in 1972 but chose not to pursue the law as a career….

Dundas was a keen fisherman, sailor, traveller and hiker – in his later years, living with Alzheimer’s disease, he walked daily from Holland Park to the Serpentine. He was also very well read, with deep reservoirs of cultural reference.

Family summer holidays for more than 30 years were spent on the Île d’Yeu off the Vendée coast of France, where on his last morning he bicycled for croissants and swam from his favourite beach.

He married, in 1979, Jennifer Daukes, who he met on a skiing holiday; she survives him with their son and two daughters.

Jamie Dundas, born November 4 1950, died August 27 2023