agricultural
Agricultural and Environmental Science, MA Counselling, BA Theology, Mission and Ministry).
Then I returned to the East Riding and started working as an Agricultural Relief doing just about everything you could do, Potatoes Sheep tasks etc.
I worked for the local Agricultural Relief Agency.
• I was born in Ethiopia to parents who were involved in agricultural
During my time on General Synod, I have engaged fully in all the sessions and found, somewhat to my surprise, that the skills I have gained through my working life, at the Bank of England, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and the Royal Agricultural University, have enabled me to contribute to all types of debate.
• 2002 to 2013 – Agricultural Industries Confederation Board member (Treasurer
Furthermore, I will push for the Church Commissioners to manage our national assets and agricultural land with high ethical and ecological standards, modeling true environmental justice.
Before ordination 15 years in the grain industry, working with rural and agricultural businesses.
I spoke to this in the last Synod to argue that prudential care should require the Church Commissioners to follow the lead of the Crown Estates whose commissioners have ambition x10 (rewilding on their agricultural land holdings).
I am an independent historian and a graduate of the universities of Oxford, Exeter, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Educated at Repton and Oxford (Keble College, first year only, 2:1 Jurisprudence mods) I joined The Economist Magazine as a trainee correspondent on the business and agricultural affairs desk.
Then after Harrow School I trained as a land agent and chartered surveyor at the Royal Agricultural College.
As a barrister in London, where I have practised in property and agricultural law for over 20 years, I also enjoy attending St Bartholomew the Great when I am able.
Together with my practice in agricultural law (where I frequently undertake pro bono cases), I am acutely aware of the problems faced by these parishes and small communities.
I am a longstanding member of the Rural Interest Group on General Synod and its predecessor the Rural Affairs Group of the Mission & Public Affairs Council, whose role has included keeping rural issues in the foreground of the church’s thinking and engaging with government and other bodies on rural and agricultural policy.
As a Church rooted in Suffolk’s agricultural heartland, the health of our soil and the health of our souls are deeply intertwined.
Diocesan Rural Advisor and Agricultural Chaplain