Dear Patrick I received your email the other day and write to inform you that my dear husband of sixty
years died on 15th August. He was at Shuttleworth from 1956/58 and met me, a local Biggleswade girl, whilst there. We married in 1961 and had two children, Andrew and Jenny. We also have four grandchildren and one great-grandson. He was 84 and had had a good life, mostly spent as an agricultural lecturer at Gaythorpe Court, Lincolnshire. We returned to Ashwell in Hertfordshire in 1999 to be nearer our daughters and family at Hitchin.
Sincerely Carolyn Lush
John Malcolm Stansfield, Professor Malcolm Stansfield MBE, BSc, Dip.Agric FIAgrM, FIMgt, FRAgS, FRASE, Princess Royal Award, and Churchill Scholar sadly passed away on
Saturday 19th June 2021. He had a very long and distinguished career and life within agriculture, and stood down last year as the Hon. Secretary of the English Panel of CARAS after 18
years in the role. Malcolm was born and raised near
Barnoldswick (‘Barlick’ to locals), son of a Master Butcher, his grandparents farmed at nearby Copy Nook Farm in Bowland. When he was born, Barnoldswick was within the West Riding of Yorkshire – a Yorkshireman “from God’s own County”
– although since 1974 the residents of the town reluctantly pay their council taxes to Lancashire! Commitment to practical
farming combined with suitable prowess at school secured Malcolm a place in 1953 to study Agriculture at the University of
Leeds. A postgraduate diploma in Agriculture
brought him to study at Reading where he became a Senior Lecturer in Farm Management combined with the Director of the University’s farms. Malcolm retired after 42 years as the longest-serving member of the University of Reading’s academic staff. Malcolm with others
founded the International Farm 9
