Green Deserts was started, and supported, by John Agnew from c1975 to at least 1982

Sir John Keith Agnew, 6th Baronet (19 December 1950 – 22 June 2011)[1][2] was the owner of the Rougham estates in Suffolk, England.

He was the son of Sir George Keith Agnew, fifth Baronet (1918–1994), and his Danish-born wife Baroness Anne Merete Louise Schaffalitzky de Muckadell (Roskilde 1924 – 31 March 2005).[1][3]

Agnew was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1964 to 1969 and then at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.[1][3] He succeeded to the UK baronetcy (Agnew, of The Planche, Suffolk, created 1895) in 1994.[3]

The Rougham estates include Rougham Airfield, where Agnew organized a wide variety of annual fairs, rallies and events, including the Wings, Wheels & Steam Country Fair, the annual Rougham Air Display & Harvest Fair, and the East Anglian Medieval Battle & Fair. A Rougham Music Festival, of which Agnew's brother and heir George Agnew was the Arts Director, was also held on the estate. Agnew started Green Deserts [4] which planned to help stop desertification in the Sudan and elsewhere.

Sir John Agnew of Rougham should not be confused with his cousin John Stuart Agnew of Rougham, farmer, a parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party. The title was created for their ancestor Sir William Agnew (1825–1910), a member of parliament and international art dealer, who bought the Rougham estates in 1904.[5]

Agnew's brother George Anthony Agnew (born 18 August 1953) succeeded him as 7th baronet.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Who's Who 2003 (London: A. & C. Black, 2003) p. 13
  2. ↑ Rougham Brother Pays Tribute to Popular Landowner
  3. 1 2 3 Sir J.K. Agnew at ThePeerage.com
  4. ↑ Rougham Tree Faire
  5. ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 11th edition
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