BOB PARRY was born in 1944, son of a tenant farmer in the Anglesey parish of Llanbabo, and worked as a television engineer for three years before returning to work on his parents' farm.

He is now tenant of two holdings totalling 300 acres, with the main holding at the 240-acre Treban Meurig farm, Bryngwran.

The farm supports a stock of more than 1,000 sheep, including 580 Welsh ewes and 480 half-bred crosses. Around 60 store cattle are bought in the autumn for fattening over the winter and sale in mid-summer.

With his wife Margaret, Mr Parry has five children and the farm is now effectively run by their son Gethin.

A member of the FUW since 1969, Mr Parry is a former chairman of the union's Anglesey branch.

He has been a local councillor since 1981 and was mayor of Anglesey in 1989-90.

Elected deputy president of the FUW in 1990, he took over the top job the following year and was awarded the OBE for services to Welsh agriculture in 1994.