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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.
The World of James Herriot is a writer's home museum attraction in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The museum was set up in 1999 by Hambleton District Council ; the business was sold to private investors in 2011 and was re-generated in 2017.
Newly qualified veterinary surgeon James Herriot travels from his home in Glasgow to the Yorkshire village of Darrowby for a job interview at Siegfried Farnon's practice. Siegfried takes James to his first job treating an abscess in a gelding's hoof. James meets Helen Alderson while treating an injured calf and she urges him to stand up to ...
The World of James Herriot. World of James Herriot Ltd is a visitor attraction in the former Thirsk home and veterinary surgery of author James Herriot. [1] [2]Displays include recreations of James Herriots 1940s flat; depictions of rural life and veterinary practice at the time, together with sets and props used for the 1978 BBC All Creatures Great and Small television series based on his books.
Siegfried Farnon, based on Wight's real-life professional partner Donald Sinclair, is played by Robert Hardy.Writer Michael Russell sums up the character's composition thus: "He is capricious, cantankerous, whimsical, arbitrary, unreasonable, unpredictable, ill-tempered, extravagant, effusive, contradictory, etc., yet in the midst of all that, the most loyal and caring of friends."
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]
The Skeldale House veterinary surgery of central characters Siegfried Farnon and James Herriot is on Trengate. [3] Although the vets are based here, they travel all over the Dales. Darrowby Church (represented in the BBC series by St Mary and St John's Church, Hardraw [4] [5]) is a few hundred feet from the surgery, beyond the small market cross.
James Herriot, MRCVS, a newly qualified vet, arrives at Skeldale House for a job interview. It is the mid-1930s, and work is hard to come by. While James waits for Siegfried Farnon, his potential employer, he meets Mr Biggins for the first time. James has to earn his money even before securing employment.