Malcolm started his career at Bagshaws in 1982 as a clerk in the markets and after furthering his education, graduated from the Royal Agricultural College in 1988 qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor and Agricultural Valuer in 1991. Having practiced for a short time in Oxfordshire and after that at another company in Staffordshire, he has been involved since that day in all aspects of rural practice including valuations, sales, compensation claims, option/promotion agreements and auctioneering. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (and a Registered Valuer), a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, a Fellow of the Livestock Auctioneers Association, became a Partner of Bagshaws in 2005 and is based at the Uttoxeter office. As well as having been a past President of the Staffordshire Agricultural Valuers Association he has now also served for a three year term on the Presidential team for the CAAV. Malcolm was very honoured to have been invited onto that role and was President of the CAAV from June 2023 through to the end of June 2024. The previous time that a Staffordshire Association valuer held the Presidency of the national association, was in 1936 when it was held by George Fletcher Bagshaw.

Email: malcolm.gale@bagshaws.com