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Robert Fleming 1947 - 2001

It is with regret that we have to report the death of Bob Fleming on Saturday 3 March morning. Bob was remembered at the annual dinner held later that evening.

Our friend Robert Fleming tragically died of cancer on Saturday 3^rd March 2001.

Bob joined us in 1985 Season after playing for some years for Toton Sycamore, another local club.

He had however gone to school with a number of the older senior club members at Bilborough Grammar School in the early sixties, and this was one of the reasons for him joining Wilsons.

In recent years Bob had been a prime mover in starting our Junior Coaching policy, the benefits of which are now being fully realised. Almost all our younger senior members having been coached by Bob at sometime.

As well as being a good and successful player Bob was "A good Club member", along with his wife Linda helping with or supporting the many fundraising events required to run a modern amateur club or joining the after match socialising on Saturday nights at our bar.

During his time with the club Bob played 177 senior matches, batted 113 times for a total of 968 runs at an average 12.1, made a highest score of 53 and completing 38 catches. He will be remembered more for his bowling  completing 1676 overs, over 25% of which were maidens (445) taking 327 wickets for 4436 runs, an average of only 13.57.

Bob will be sorely missed as a friend and teammate.

Stephen Leahy

The following obituary appeared in the March 26 edition of The University of Nottingham newsletter:

Robert A. Fleming (53), Chief Experimental Officer and Analytical Services Manager in the School of Chemistry, died on Saturday March 3 2001 following a short illness.

Bob Fleming joined the University as a trainee technician directly from school in September 1963. His considerable talents were soon recognised, and together with Dr Harold Booth, Bob did much to establish nmr spectroscopy as a major facility within the school. At the same he advanced his academic career, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Chemistry following dedicated part-time study. He was promoted to Experimental Officer in 1979 and in 1994 was appointed to head the newly-created Analytical Services Unit.

Throughout his life Bob was an enthusiastic and successful sportsman. In recent years he dedicated much of his spare time to coaching young players. He will be sorely missed by all his friends and colleagues and our deepest sympathies are extended to his wife Linda.

Dr Mike Hardy