Sir John Cripps.  Burford Quaker who Championed the Countryside.
 
Although he lived five miles from Burford at the village of Filkins, John Cripps played an important part of Burford life.  He was editor of The Countryman in Sheep Street and was a leading member of the town's Quaker community.  He also played an important civic role as a member and sometime chair of the Witney Rural District Council until its demise in 1974 as well as chairing the parish council. John also was a pivotal figure in conservation, chairing the Countryside Commission.
 
Why did John Cripps choose Quakerism when his family were Anglicans? Was it not an irony that he was a conscientious objector when his father was minister for aircraft production in the war-time government? How did this self-effacing man help to open the countryside to town dwellers?
 
In this monograph, local historian Bert Clough also provides profiles of John Cripps' illustrious family such as his father and mother, Sir Stafford and Dame Isobel, his grandfather Lord Parmoor and his sister, Peggy Appiah.
 
35 pages with black and white and some colour photos . A5 size