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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 building which was the veterinary surgery of Alf Wight and Brian and Donald Sinclair, 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk. It is now The World of James Herriot museum. (2009 photo) In 1939, Sinclair bought a veterinary practice at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorkshire. In July 1940, Sinclair began war service in the Royal Air Force, and hired Alf Wight to run the ...
Wight used the name Helen Alderson for his real-life wife, Joan Danbury. Danbury, in real life was not a farmer’s daughter, but worked as a secretary. According to one source, "contrary to the stories, Alf Wight met her in a group outing to a local dance.
The hit British Channel 5 program, which just finished airing its second series on PBS through its Masterpiece anthology, is based on the series of semi-autobiographical novels James Alfred Wight ...
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]
Announced in July 2010 with the title Young James, the series was devised by Johnny Byrne, a scriptwriter on All Creatures Great and Small, and consultant producer Kate Croft. [1] Byrne, who died in 2008 during the development of the series, knew Alf Wight (who wrote under the pen name Herriot) and his passion and experience convinced Croft ...
As per the section "Redirect" above (last updated 2008) I actually think there is a fair case to be made for this page to be renamed after Wight's real name i.e. Alf (James Alfred) Wight, since really it is a biography of Wight; if it were a biography of "James Herriot" then some things would be different on account of the differences in life ...
Amore's skull and bones were found on Jan. 28, 2012, in a trailer park in Opelika, a city of about 30,000 people roughly 55 miles (89 kilometers) northeast of Montgomery.