Arthur Oglesby
| Arthur Oglesby | |
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| Born |
21 December 1923 Scarborough, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 2 December 2000 Harrogate, Yorkshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Writer, film-maker, broadcaster and fisherman |
Arthur Victor Oglesby (21 December 1923 – 2 December 2000) was a British writer, photographer, film-maker, broadcaster and fisherman. Best known for his books on salmon fishing.
Arthur Oglesby was born in Scarborough in December 1923, before the family moved to York when he was 2 years old. In his autobiography Reeling In, he described his Yorkshire childhood as "semi-Victorian". As a boy he enjoyed a rural life, where he was first introduced to fishing. Leaving school at 16 years, he became an apprentice chemist for the family manufacturing pharmaceuticals business, Harvey Scruton, York (his grandfather, a chemist, had invented Nurse Harvey’s Gripe Water, as a remedy for colic in infants).
At the age of 18 years, Oglesby joined the Black Watch regiment, and saw action in Northern France during the Second World War. He was wounded in Normandy in the thigh and chest, just a few weeks after surviving the D-Day landings in June 1944. He was latterly stationed in Gibraltar from 1945–7 and left the Army as a Captain, returning to Yorkshire to help run the family business.
When he was not working in his family business, Oglesby spent as much time as he could on his hobbies of fishing, shooting and photography. In 1950 he began to combine these hobbies by taking photos of angling subjects. His first commission was for ICI where he sold some transparencies for their calendar. He then began to submit articles for magazines such as The Field, Creel and Angling, Shooting Times, Amateur Photographer and the American Field & Stream becoming their European editor.
Oglesby became the editor of Anglers Annual for three years during the mid-Sixties, for two decades was a weekly contributor to Shooting Times, and wrote regularly for Trout & Salmon. His photographic archive held more than 30,000 images.
He 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. On Edwards’ death in 1968, he took over the courses on Speyside teaching guests to perfect their Salmon fishing and Spey casting for over 30 years.
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