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the rider

Island Life - April/May 2010

Westover Park Farm, Calbourne where

an experience used to good effect in

he enjoyed a happy retirement with his

recent years helping his son, James, at

partner, Mary.

Gatcombe shoot.

Farming and hunting were major facets

Renowned for his broad smile and

a special memory. Polite, charming,
charismatic – a man with no equal.”
John not only leaves behind partner

of his life, and it has been said he could

the lifting of his cap, JJK was also past

keep anyone engaged with stories of his

president of the IW Agricultural Society,

Mary; children Mary, Elizabeth and James;

hunting days out. But his talents did not

chairman of the Gilten Market and a

eight grandchildren and eight great

end there. As an accomplished hedgelayer

prominent member of the IW Point to

grandchildren, but a host of friends who

himself, he was frequently invited to

Point committee.

are deeply saddened by his passing. The

judge the annual Island hedgelaying

Gill Cavaciuti, a close friend of the

competition and, for many years, he

family, said: “Everyone who had the

ran the Knighton Shooting Syndicate,

privilege of knowing him will have

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Island countryside that he loved will be a
poorer place without him.

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