Johnny Kingdom R.I,P

sad acey, he loved the beautiful Exmoor.

Television wildlife presenter Johnny Kingdom has been killed in an accident involving a digger on his land.

The film-maker, photographer and author, who specialised in his local area of Exmoor and north Devon, died on Thursday night.

Police confirmed emergency services were called to a field near Wadham Cross in Knowstone, Devon, to reports that a digger had rolled over.

The 79-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.


Mr Kingdom was born and bred on the edge of Exmoor and worked as a gravedigger, a quarryman and a lumberjack until an accident whilst out logging.

He then began making wildlife films and in 2006 his first series on BBC 2, A Year On Exmoor, was watched by more than three million people.


.....As the loving man himself would have said 'Farewell to all you lovely people'."

great shame.showed a lot of compassion for injured animals.

Missed this one ,not had the tv on and not been online much .From what I have read he got a good send off with plenty turning out .Liked this cheerful chap ,he had such a passion for his local area ,often the wildlife photographers spend all their time in far flung fields but not Johnny .Reading that he was a grave digger for 50 years and done some farm work ect as well and it was a whilst recovering from a tractor accident that he picked up a camera and started filming local wildlife ,his year on Exmoor was excellent ,he was killed on a not so recently purchased 50 Acre site he was adapting for wildlife ,bad luck he won’t see its completion but hopefully it is finished . A real character that had the local knowledge to back the camera up Johnny was of course an old poacher a hunter and that’s where his knowledge was gleaned ,that’s what made him the character he was ,apparently the earlier tractor accident involved a chain snapping and he was very lucky even though his recovery was long and hard ,another old countryman and a real character passes to the happy hunting grounds ,sad loss for Exmoor .