Oliver Foot

The Honourable Oliver Isaac Foot (19 September 1946 – 6 February 2008) was a British actor, philanthropist and charity worker.

Early life Oliver Foot was born on 19 September 1946, the son of Hugh Foot, (later Baron Caradon, Jamaica's last British Colonial Secretary), and Florence Sylvia Tod. He was the younger brother of journalists Paul Foot and Sarah Foot, and nephew of the former leader of the British Labour Party, Michael Foot, Labour government minister Sir Dingle Foot and Liberal peer Lord John Foot. Oliver was a lifelong socialist.

Christian faith In the mid-1970s, Foot became a born-again Christian while staying with the L'Abri Fellowship in Hampshire. He was a member of Grace Community Church in Morval, near Looe in Cornwall.

Orbis

Foot was a long-standing supporter of ORBIS International, the flying eye hospital, and was the chief executive from 1982 to 1987, becoming president from 1987 to 1995 and again from 2004 to his death in 2008.

Air Jamaica and Sandals After his departure from Orbis, Foot worked for Air Jamaica and Sandals Resorts as a Vice-President of Public Affairs from 1996 to 2004. Splitting his time between Jamaica and the UK, Foot used his contacts in the press to significantly raise the profile of Air Jamaica, Sandals and Jamaica at large to the people of the UK. In the end, the location was poorly chosen and the overheads were too high. Jamaica Blue closed in 2001.

Death Foot died, aged 61, in hospital in South London due to heart failure.