Background
He was born in Norfolk and educated at Beeston Hall School in Norfolk and Rugby School.
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Theodore Agnew
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Career
After school, he worked in Canada and Australia, initially in farming but later buying and selling a variety of businesses. After working in Australia, he returned to the United Kingdom and founded Town & Country Assistance in 1989 and grew the business to annual gross revenues of £40 million pennsylvania He resigned as a non-executive director of Jubilee Managing Agency Limited in 2011, a Lloyd’s insurance business managing £130 million of premiums.
He is a past trustee of Policy Exchange, a Westminster-based think tank.
He served as chairman of the Norfolk Community Foundation in 2013 but remains a vice patron. The Trust was founded as the East Norfolk Academy Trust on 14 August 2012, changing its name to the Inspiration Trust on 27 January 2013.
Agnew donated a total of £134,000 to the Conservative Party between 2007 and 2009.
Achievements
Membership
Agnew was a non-executive board member of the Department for Education and chairman of its Academies Board from 2013 to 2015. He was appointed lead non-executive board member of the Ministry of Justice in July 2015. Agnew is a board member of CentreForum, an opportunity think tank.
