James Herriot
Sign in to saveAlso known as James Alfred "Alf" Wight, James Alfred Wight
veterinary surgeon and writer (1916-1995)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 October 1916
- Died
- 23 February 1995
- Works
- 206
Top works
- James Herriot's Yorkshine with photographs by Derry Brabbs
- All Things Wise and Wonderful
- If only they could talk
- Best Horse Stories Ever
- Sipure kelavim
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 296
- Total plays
- 12,712
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,286x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,712x
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Quotes
- “"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."”
- “"For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. The words 'My book,' as in 'I'll put that in it one day,' became a sort of running joke. Eventually she said, 'Look, I don't want to offend you, but you've been saying that for 25 years. If you were going to write a book, you'd have done it. You're never going to do it now. Old vets of 50 don't write books.' So I purchased a lot of paper right then and started to write."”
- “"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me."”
- “"Years ago, farmers were uneducated and eccentric and said funny things, and we ourselves were comparatively uneducated. We had no antibiotics, few drugs. A lot of time was spent pouring things down cows' throats. The whole thing added up to a lot of laughs. There's more science now, but not so many laughs."”
- “"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alfred
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Sunderland
- Place of death
- Thirsk
- Occupation
- comedian
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Military branch
- Royal Air Force
- Official website
- www.jamesherriot.org/
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- date of death
- 1995-02-23
- Commons category
- James Herriot
- date of birth
- 1916-10-03
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- pseudonym
- James Herriot
- name in native language
- James Alfred Wight
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
Sources (2)
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