Chris Clapham

Chris Clapham is a Partner and head of Stags Agricultural Sales department which includes our three livestock markets being South Molton Market, Tavistock Livestock Centre and Honiton Market as well as On Site and Online Sales that includes the West Country Sales Centre auction site. The department also conducts sales of livestock by private treaty and sales of grass keep, fodder and standing straw at the appropriate times of year.

Chris graduated from Seale-Hayne Agriculture College with a degree in Rural Estate Management and subsequently passed his RICS and CAAV exams to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor and Agricultural Valuer. Chris has worked throughout the South West managing and running a number of different livestock markets, joining Stags in 2009 he spends most of his time as the main auctioneer at the majority of Stags agricultural auctions and markets. Chris also carries out most of the firm’s livestock and machinery valuations across the whole of the South West. 

Chris became an Equity Partner of Stags in 2018. He grew up on a dairy farm near Gloucester and is a keen follower of National Hunt Racing. In his spare time Chris can be heard commentating at Point-to-Points across the South West.