Background
Emmanuel-Jones was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, but in 1961 he moved with his parents to the United Kingdom.
Emmanuel-Jones was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, but in 1961 he moved with his parents to the United Kingdom.
He was an unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate for the Chippenham constituency for the 2010 general election. They settled in Small Heath in Birmingham, where he was one of nine children living in a small terrace house. After leaving school without qualifications, he joined the British Army but was dismissed after a year for poor discipline.
Farming Emmanuel-Jones" television career gave him the capital to buy Higher West Kitcham Farm, on the border of Devon and Cornwall in Street Giles on the heath,Launceston,which he continues to farm.
He became known to the locals who helped him initially with farming as "The Black Farmer", which inspired him to set up the brand of the same name, whose products include awarding-winning sausages, chicken, ham and sauces. He has since become involved in setting up the Black Farmer Scholarship, which aims to help and encourage ethnic minorities to work in the rural community, an area where to date they have been under-represented.
This aim has been made into a Channel 4 television series, Young Black Farmers, a series of three, which sees him take a group of nine inner-city school leavers from ethnic minorities on a scholarship on his Devon farm. Business Emannuel-Jones set up a marketing agency in London, specialising in food brands, including Lloyd Grossman, Kettle Chips and Plymouth Gin.
