William Fleming Bewley CBE (1891 – 11 December 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne)[1] was a British mycologist, plant pathologist, and horticulturalist.
Upon graduating from Armstrong College, Durham University, Bewley was appointed in 1914[2] as assistant bacteriologist to H. B. Hutchinson at Rothamsted Experimental Station.
[2] As the station's director, he was outstanding in promoting co-operation between glasshouse growers and scientific workers.
[3] His 1959 book Science Has Green Fingers was an outgrowth of his BBC gardening programmes with Roy Hay.
[3] For his services to the glasshouse crop industry in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, he was made in 1935 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)[7] and in 1938 was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) of the Royal Horticultural Society.