20 Facts About Jorian Jenks

Jorian Edward Forwood Jenks was an English farmer, environmentalism pioneer and fascist.

Jorian Jenks has been described as "one of the most dominant figures in the development of the organic movement".

From this point on Jorian Jenks was forced to rely on writing as his source of income, penning articles for such journals as Philip Mairet's New English Weekly and Maurice Reckitt's Christendom.

Jorian Jenks organised garden parties to raise funds for the BUF, a fairly common technique amongst the party's more affluent and rural supporters.

Jorian Jenks was one of the group's most active members in Surrey, where a particularly active branch existed.

Jorian Jenks wrote articles on animal husbandry for the non-BUF journal New Pioneer, an anti-Semitic work founded in late 1938 by John Beckett and Lord Lymington.

In 1936 Jorian Jenks was picked as candidate for the forthcoming general election for Horsham and Worthing.

Jorian Jenks took charge of the agricultural policy of the BUF, seeking to lead Britain to agricultural autarky.

Jorian Jenks called for import controls and the establishment of an Agricultural Land Bank in order to make farm debt more manageable as well as an Agricultural Corporation to fix prices and fit in with the BUF corporatist economic policy.

Whilst Jorian Jenks' ideas were never put into practice it has been argued that they did affect government policy, as moves towards agricultural self-sufficiency became the cornerstone of policy in the late 1940s whilst earlier initiatives such as the British Empire Economic Conference and Import Duties Act 1932 borrowed from Jorian Jenks' protectionist vision.

Unlike Mosley, who felt that British society was in rapid decline, Jorian Jenks felt that the country was in a slow Spenglerian decay.

Jorian Jenks remained a BUF member and in common with most of the leading figures in the group was detained under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940.

Jorian Jenks was initially detained at Latchmere House in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for interrogation, before being transferred to Walton Gaol where he was subject to 23-hour lockdown.

Jorian Jenks was released in 1941 and became a tenant farmer in Seaford, East Sussex.

Jorian Jenks argued in favour of organicism, feeling that the quality of food and the health of a nation were inextricably linked.

Jorian Jenks felt that the key to health was Bergsonian vitalism, but added to this the belief that the decline in food standards would directly precipitate the fall of Western civilisation.

Whilst the Association had a wide membership Jorian Jenks saw it as a vehicle keeping Mosleyism alive in a time before the formation of the Union Movement.

Jorian Jenks served as press secretary for the RRA and edited their journal Rural Economy whilst building up a coterie of former fascists or fascist sympathisers within the group in the shape of ex-BUF members Derek Stuckey and Robert Saunders as well as some former members of the English Mistery.

Jorian Jenks used his position as editor of the RRA journal to advocate agricultural autarky.

Jorian Jenks helped to produce their None Need Starve document, which offered a new agricultural plan.