# Jim Flegg

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{{Short description|British horticulturalist and broadcaster (1937–2024)}}
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'''James John Maitland Flegg''', [OBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) (23 April 1937 – 7 May 2024) was a British [horticulturalist](/source/horticulturalist), broadcaster, [ornithologist](/source/ornithology) and writer on bird-related matters.

==Life and career==
Flegg was born in [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) on 23 April 1937<ref name="Vane-Wright">{{cite journal |last1=Vane-Wright |first1=Dick |title=Jim Flegg, OBE, 1937–2024 |journal=The Adonis |date=November 2024 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387756948}}</ref>  and was a zoology graduate of [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London) who spent much of his subsequent professional career working in horticulture at the [East Malling Research Station](/source/East_Malling_Research_Station).<ref name="Vane-Wright" /><ref name=nfs>[http://www.nationalfruitshow.org.uk/competitions/judges.htm National Fruit Show Judges – Dr Jim Flegg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322211954/http://www.nationalfruitshow.org.uk/competitions/judges.htm |date=22 March 2014 }}, accessed 20-03-14</ref> He authored a number of papers on [nematode](/source/nematode)s.<ref name="Vane-Wright" />

Flegg also had a lifelong interest in ornithology, having joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, having become president of [Kent Ornithological Society](/source/Kent_Ornithological_Society) in 1977, and was Director of the [British Trust for Ornithology](/source/British_Trust_for_Ornithology) from 1995 to 1998.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /> He was a presenter on the regional ''Coastal Ways'' and ''Country Ways'' television programmes for [Meridian Broadcasting](/source/Meridian_Broadcasting).<ref name="Vane-Wright" /> He also served as chairman of the trustees of [Dungeness Bird Observatory](/source/Dungeness_Bird_Observatory).<ref name="Vane-Wright" />

Flegg was a [bird ringer](/source/bird_ringing) and ringed over 30,000 birds.{{Citation needed|date=June 2012}} Among the books Flegg authored are the [Photographic Field Guide: Birds of Australia](/source/Photographic_Field_Guide%3A_Birds_of_Australia), and a number of books designed to interest children in living things from an early age.

He was appointed an [Officer of the Order of the British Empire](/source/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (OBE) in the [1997 Birthday Honours](/source/1997_Birthday_Honours).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54794|date=14 June 1997|supp=y|page=11}}</ref>

Flegg died at home on 7 May 2024, at the age of 87.<ref name="Vane-Wright" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Jim Flegg, OBE |url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/flegg-notices_57297 |access-date=25 May 2024 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=25 May 2024}}</ref>

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