Fellows Lunch
Please join us in The Great Hall for a drinks reception, followed by lunch and an address from our guest speaker
12.30pm Drinks reception
1.00pm Lunch
followed by guest speaker: Jeremy Finnis DL FSAg
After a science degree at Oxford, Jeremy joined the Ministry of Agriculture, firstly as an adviser in the field and then in Whitehall in several policy areas, including working directly to Ministers. For the last 30 years he has been farming a wide range of crops, together with other diverse enterprises, in a 2500ha family partnership in Essex. In Scotland his business – Dell Estate – includes a let livestock farm, sporting and holiday lets, fishing, forestry, carbon capture and several renewable energy projects.
Jeremy is Chairman of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and of its experimental farm (The Allerton Project). He was Chairman of the Essex branch for 7 years.
He is the 2026 Master of the Worshipful Company of Farmers, President of Essex CLA, and has been Vice-Chairman of Governors at Writtle University as well as President of both Orsett and Rochford Agricultural Societies. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Essex in 2019.
Jeremy is a Chartered Biologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Chartered Management Institute.