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Clive joined McCartneys in 1983 from Leamington Spa based Pedigree Livestock auctioneers, John Thornborrow & Co. It was at this time that McCartneys took over Worcester Market where Clive has been based ever since. He has seen the market move out of Worcester City Centre to an excellent location adjacent to the M5 motorway.

In addition to his responsibility for the day to day running of Worcester, Clive sells the prime lambs at Ludlow on a Monday and has seasonal pedigree sales at Brecon.

He joined the full partnership in 1989 and has been largely responsible for the increase in Society pedigree sales for most of the cattle and sheep breed societies, several of these breeds having national sales at Worcester or Brecon.

He has recently been appointed as a Monitor Valuer by the Welsh Assembly Government to oversee TB Valuations in Wales.

Over the years he has been privileged to judge cattle and sheep classes at most County Shows, in fact judging, at the Royal Welsh and the Royal Show on three occasions.

His "good looks" have been moulded by a rugby career that took him to County level and he dines out on the fact that he was "the best back row forward never to play for England"!

Apart from his involvement in country sports Clive is keen on genealogy with a family tree tracing back to 1532 – in his words "plenty of history but not much money".