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James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland , Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire , where he practised for almost 50 years.
23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, the former veterinary surgery of Sinclair, his brother Donald, and James "Alf" Wight (James Herriot) Sinclair was born at Harrogate on 27 September 1915. [ 1 ] His father, James, [ 2 ] was the son of a crofter who had moved from the Isle of Sanday in the late 19th century. [ 3 ]
Original name plates for Donald Sinclair (Siegfried Farnon) and Alf Wight (James Herriot) on display at the James Herriot museum in Thirsk, UK. Donald Vaughan Sinclair (22 April 1911 – 28 June 1995) was a British veterinary surgeon who graduated from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in 1933.
The vet then went to the house of a friend who was on holiday in Tenerife at the time, the inquest heard. He called James and told him that “he had done something stupid” and that he “loved ...
His death was initially attributed to "natural causes" by the CIA. After the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal erupted, the Pentagon acknowledged that the cause of death was " asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression", and that his body showed "evidence of blunt force trauma to the chest and legs".
Neither the BBC nor the new series was filmed in Thirsk (where the actual vet, Alf Wight, practised), because it had become too large for the small-town feel that the producers wanted. "The nice thing was that there weren't any modern houses in the town centre ... so we didn't have to change anything completely. What we did change were all the ...
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