EAST Midlands auctioneer and chartered surveyor, Michael Bletsoe, a partner in the family firm of chartered surveyors, Henry H. Bletsoe and Son, has died suddenly at the age of 42.

The fourth generation of his family to sell in Thrapston Livestock Market, he was an auctioneer and valuer, a fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Alongside working in the firm and livestock market, he also farmed a 1,500-acre mixed livestock and arable farm, south east of Thrapston at Denford Ash, a mixed livestock and arable farm, where he lived with his wife Emma and four children. Farmers Guardian

Posted: 05|4|07 at 6:57 am. Filed under: UK News.