1. Arthur Victor Oglesby was a British writer, photographer, filmmaker, broadcaster and fisherman.
15 Facts About Arthur Oglesby
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Arthur Oglesby was best known for his books on salmon fishing.
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Arthur Oglesby was born in Scarborough in December 1923, before the family moved to York when he was 2 years old.
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At the age of 18 years, Oglesby joined the Black Watch regiment, and saw action in Northern France during the Second World War.
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Arthur Oglesby was wounded in Normandy in the thigh and chest, just a few weeks after surviving the D-Day landings in June 1944.
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When he was not working in his family business, Arthur Oglesby spent as much time as he could on his hobbies of fishing, shooting and photography.
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Arthur Oglesby first visited the River Spey in 1957 with his mentor Eric Horsfall Turner and met up with Captain T L 'Tommy' Edwards, who was running some of the first-ever fishing courses and took him on as an assistant instructor.
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From 1968 onward, Arthur Oglesby took a back seat in the running of the family business, moved to Harrogate and concentrated on making a career from angling.
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Arthur Oglesby was a prolific writer, with a total of nine books to his own pen or co-authored.
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Arthur Oglesby caught some of the largest catches of his generation, and over the course of his career, he landed over 2,500 Atlantic salmon.
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Arthur Oglesby ran the casting demonstrations at the annual CLA Game Fair and in 1999 he was awarded their Lifetime Achievement Award.
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For many years, Arthur Oglesby led fishing parties to Iceland, Alaska, Norway and Russia, usually in the company of his second wife Grace, herself an accomplished angler.
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Arthur Oglesby continued to run the fishing school at Grantown-on-Spey in Scotland during the spring weeks and late summer each year, teaching hundreds of people to perfect the art of salmon fishing.
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In December 2000, at the age of 76, Arthur Oglesby died suddenly, from an undiagnosed infection, after heart surgery a few months earlier.
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Arthur Oglesby was married twice, firstly to Mary in 1947 and secondly to Grace in 1969.