[1] He attended Epsom College and then, in the 1920s, studied interior design at the New York School in Paris.
[2] In 1932 he organized the exhibition "Modern Designs for Mural Decoration" at Carlisle House, opened by Osbert Sitwell and including works, among others, by Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Edward Halliday.
[5] His commissions included: the ballroom in the Royal Palace in Athens for King George II of Greece; the Penthouse Suite at the Dorchester Hotel, together with Oliver Messel; the interiors of Dalmeny House for Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery; stage sets and murals.
[2] Fleming lived all his adult life, until death, with Geoffrey Houghton-Brown (1903-1993), an authority on 18th-century French furniture.
[6] The Ronald Fleming interior decorator papers, 1915 - 1976 are held by the Archive of Art & Design of the Victoria & Albert Museum.