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Jeremy Holtom Obituary
Jeremy Stephen
formerly of Syresham House,
Syresham.
Died in Kettering General Hospital
on 17th July 2025, aged 67 years.
His outsized character, personal drive,
challenging beliefs, music and other artist creations, and above all, his desire to make the world a better place, will be missed by family and friends.
His funeral will take place at
St James the Great, Syresham
on Friday 22nd August 2025 at 11.00am.
Family flowers only, however, donations can be made to Soundminds
(mental health charity supporting music and the arts) c/o:
Edd Frost & Daughters Family Funeral Directors, 27 Market Place, Brackley NN13 7AB. Tel:(01280) 630 630.
Memories and Condolences
for Jeremy Holtom
2 Entries
Ian Mayman
October 14, 2025
Jeremy Holtom - A Life Lived With Passion
The news of Jeremy passing came to me in an automated email that I found a week after the funeral. I had not seen him in the last few years, but it was still a huge shock and I have been wanting to write a few words in tribute to Jeremy. I will miss him.
I first met Jeremy around 2003, I think a couple of years after he sold the financial services business in which he was so successful. This was one of three times in which I worked with Jeremy as one of his LifePaths clients. I think it was the third time when I wasn´t just a client, I also worked for Jeremy as his Personal Assistant. The main part of my job was to type up his transcribed letters and notes from meetings, and from the many warm and jovial social encounters that he had. He was very approachable and convivial. Jeremy often saw injustice in the world, he wrote letters to people with influence hoping to inspire them to change. This all meant I heard his voice a lot and got to know his way of thinking and world view extremely well. Without the experience of typing up Jeremy´s notes, this tribute would not have been as long or with such recall.
At the time when Jeremy died, I had just started digitising my notes and LifePaths Life Strategy reports that Jeremy wrote for me. He may have said this was in "in the flow" or that I felt called by him to do it, to read them again, to achieve the massive potential that he always saw in me. I felt few ever believed in me as much as Jeremy did. He gave me a job when nobody else would, he got me a place of my own to live in for the first and so far only time in my life.
On the subject of economics, Jeremy was both generous with his money - paying well for the best, and charging high prices for his services. He hated short-termism and the culture of "planned obsolescence". He believed in paying a lot for things that last, things into which people had put their heart and soul to create.
Jeremy made a lot of money in financial services and over the years he effectively gave it all up in pursuit of making the world a friendlier and much more creative place, with particular emphasis on listening to instinct and working creatively from the heart.
He was known to be extremely challenging towards others, but always with the goal of what he considered to be helping them. It must be said the most challenging times were very bad because he ruthlessly targeted painful and often self-destructive behaviour in others - always with the intention of helping resolve painful feelings and trauma. However, the good times were absolutely amazing - especially the creativity weekends which included painting, playing music, and new experiences - such as acting in a music video.
Jeremy was the founding member of his band Six Foot Under, a band where the members in later years were Jeremy´s friends and clients who made music with him on creativity weekends at Syresham House. He said at times the music was similar in style to Pink Floyd. Jeremy was especially proud of his work on the album "Traveller", released through his own record label, Beyond Reality Music.
He always hoped that humanity one day will return to making music by tuning into natural rhythms and emotion to create such raw, powerful music. Jeremy was also incredibly talented on the piano. Personally, I´ve never heard Moonlight Sonata played with such serene eloquence as when he played.
In one of his online videos, he talked about an inspirational drive into London in his red Bentley Corniche Convertible. I helped design some promotional branding on the car. I recall it was a very chilly March day and we had the roof down. For the journey, Sally and myself were in the back wearing Charles and Diana masks. Jeremy loved the attention, people were entertained and cheering as we went through central London.
Jeremy had a great and dark sense of humour, as seen in his zombie videos and naming his band Six Foot Under. He speculated on many ethereal and spiritual subjects, he would on occasion talk of reincarnation. He would say the worst people may come back as something revolting whilst the most "evolved" - those that care selflessly for others, live life with sincere passion, to the highest standards, and express their creativity with soulful passion - may be reborn as a billionaire that is loved by all, and inspiring millions of people to live a life better than they ever dreamed possible.
Nigel Taylor
August 22, 2025
Jeremy was a big influence in the late 1990s whilst working at J. Rothchilds Assurance saddens to hear of his death.
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