Jorian Jenks
Jorian Jenks Born in Oxford in 1899 Jorian Edward Forwood Jenks was the son of a solicitor and later prominent academic and writer. He was educated at Haileybury, and gained experience as a farm manager in Berkshire and had travelled to New Zealand, Canada and Australia working, studying and lecturing, and gaining valuable experience in land management and soil erosion.
He spent a year as an agricultural lecturer in Devon and during this time married and had two children. Jenks then realised his life’s desire which was to farm for himself.
Jenks was attracted to the only Party which supported the cause of home agriculture and therefore joined the BUF. Jenks was soon appointed the BUF’s agricultural adviser. He developed the Party’s agricultural policy and became a prolific writer in BUF publications often writing under the pen-name Virgilius. Jenks was convinced that many of the modern diseases and the increase in cancer was the result of the use of chemical fertilisers.
Jorian Jenks was one of the founders of theSoil Association. He was a friend of the German Food Estate Minister, Walter Darre who has been described as the Father of theGreen Movement. Both Jenks and Darre were passionate advocates of organic farming and healthy food for the masses. He continued his work for Mosley after the war.