About our Auctioneers
John Uffold, BSc. (Hons), MRICS, FAAV, Chairman
Born in Surrey, educated at Reading University, achieved a 2:1 Honours degree in Estate Management. He is member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers.
From 1973 - 1979, John worked as a professional chartered surveyor whilst running a livestock market in the West Country at the same time. He then worked for approximately 18 months with the Land Service - ADAS - at Guildford Divisional Office and at headquarters in London before being moved to Chelmsford.
John returned to private practice in 1980, working for a short time at Northampton and then moved to McCartneys. For the last twenty years John has been running the livestock market in Ludlow, Shropshire combining practical auctioneering with professional work.
He has always remained involved with the family farming partnership which has bred Texel Sheep for the last twenty five years and also used to have a pedigree flock of Clun Forest sheep.
John is currently Chairman of the Shropshire and North Wales branch of the Livestock Auctioneers Association, representing them nationally on Cattle and Sheep Identification committees. He is also Vice President of the Clun Forest Sheep Breeders Society Ltd. John also sits as the Auctioneers' representative on the National Sheep & Goat Scheme Advisory Committee (run by Scottish Colleges).
John has been involved with livestock judging and breeding from an early age, especially in relation to Young Farmers. Won a Gold Medal at the Smithfield Show for beef cattle and carcase judging. Has judged at national and local events and represented Young Farmers at a national level at the European Rally.
John is married to Mary, and they have two children, Ruth and Oliver.
Clive Roads
Clive Roads joined McCartneys in 1983 when the firm took over Worcester Market. Although selling the finished sheep at Ludlow on a Monday he is based at Worcester and is responsible for the day to day running of the office/market and professional matters.
He joined the full partnership in 1989 having been an associate partner for the previous two years. Before joining McCartneys he spent eleven years involved with selling pedigree livestock at a time when major cattle and sheep breeds were first being imported. Over the last ten years this pedigree foundation has come to fruition coupled with the new livestock market situated adjacent to the M5 motorway at Worcester, this combination having attracted many cattle and sheep breed societies to use the facilities for their national and regional sales.
During that period he met and married his wife Sheila, who is also involved in the pedigree livestock business.
Since Young Farmers days Clive has been keen to judge livestock and has been fortunate enough to be invited to judge at the Royal Show and many county and local shows.
He is a keen sportsman, having played representative rugby at county level. He now participates in most field sports in addition to having more than a passing interest in genealogy with his own family tree dating back to 1588.
Miss Jenny Layton B.Sc. (HONS) MRICS,FAAV
Jenny Layton joined McCartneys in 1999 at their Knighton Office. Jenny is a farmer's daughter from Vowchurch in South Herefordshire and was educated at Kingstone High School.
After obtaining a National Diploma in Business & Finance at Hereford, she went on to gain a 2:1 Honours Degree in Rural Enterprise & Land Management from Harper Adams University College. Jenny qualified as a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers in 2000.
Jenny is one of the few female livestock auctioneers in the country and sells cull, store and breeding sheep and store cattle on a regular basis at Knighton Market as well at farm dispersal sales.
Jenny also enjoys and undertakes a large range of professional work including farm business tenancies, grass keep, valuations for borrowing, probate, divorce, tax and other purposes, planning appraisals, compensation matters, grant applications and is the McCartneys Cross Border Specialist for the Single Payment Scheme. A game of competitive hockey for Kington Ladies is also played every Sunday.
Glyn Owens FRICS FAAV
Glyn Owens is the partner in charge of Knighton Market. From a North Herefordshire farming family background he has been involved in livestock auctioneering and agricultural valuations since he left Hereford Cathedral School in 1974. Having gained the Diploma in Rural Estate Management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1982 and became a Full Member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers in the same year.
When not involved in livestock auctions he is actively involved in providing a full range of professional services to a rural client base in Mid-Wales, South Shropshire and North Herefordshire.
Glyn is married and has three children who keep him fully occupied during his spare time!
Chris Jones MRICS FAAV
Chris Jones - Manager of Brecon Livestock Market
Born and bred in Montgomeryshire, the son of dairy farmer Raymond Jones, Chris joined McCartneys in 1989 as an assistant to John Uffold. In 1995 he became a fully qualified Rural Surveyor after completing a correspondence course with White Knights College, Reading University.
Chris opened the Bishops Castle office in 1996 and continued to sell store lambs and cattle at the Ludlow market. Following the foot and mouth outbreak he was asked by McCartneys to become the first resident partner to run Brecon Livestock Market, and moved to Brecon in June 2002.
He has been a partner in McCartneys since 1997 and carries out the duties of auctioneer in Brecon, together with rural professional work and the trading of milk/livestock quotas.
Gareth Wall
Gareth Wall is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Association of Agricultural Valuers and a member of the Institute of Agricultural Management. He joined McCartneys in July 2001, following 4 years employment with a firm of Land Agents in Shrewsbury.
He is a partner of the firm, and is based at the Kington office in Herefordshire where he runs the livestock market and undertakes a wide range of professional work for private and institutional clients.
Ryan Williams BSc FRICS IRRV
Ryan Williams is the partner in charge of our Hay-on-Wye Office and Chairman of the property section of the McCartneys group. A native of Brecon, he has worked in the Hay, Talgarth and Brecon areas for over twenty years. He specialises in the sale by auction of farms, cottages, barns and land but can also be seen selling grass keep, standing straw, mowing grass, at farm sales and at our Brecon furniture saleroom.
Ryan has a B.Sc degree in Estate Management, qualified in 1979 and became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1992. Apart from the sale of agricultural and residential property, he also specialises in compusory purchase and compensation, rating and planning matters, particularly local plan issues and planning permission for the conversion of barns and derelict cottages.
Ryan is married with two teenage children and lives at Battle, near Brecon. He regularly carries out charity auctions and his interests outside work include history and most sports including rugby, cricket and golf.
