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Royal College Of Veterinary Surgeons
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is the regulatory body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom, established in 1844 by royal charter. It is responsible for monitoring the educational, ethical and clinical standards of the veterinary profession. Anyone wishing to practice as a vet in the United Kingdom must be registered with the RCVS. Role *To safeguard the health and welfare of animals committed to veterinary care through the regulation of the educational, ethical and clinical standards of the veterinary profession, thereby protecting the interests of those dependent on animals and assuring public health. *To act as an impartial source of informed opinion on animal health and welfare issues and their interaction with human health. Anyone who wishes to practice as a vet in the United Kingdom must first register with the RCVS. Eligibility for registration is based either on having a recognised qualification or by passing the RCVS statutory membership exami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veterinary Surgeon
Veterinary surgery is surgery performed on non-human animals by veterinarians, whereby the procedures fall into three broad categories: orthopaedics (bones, joints, muscles), soft tissue surgery (skin, body cavities, cardiovascular system, GI/urogenital/respiratory tracts), and neurosurgery. Advanced surgical procedures such as joint replacement (total hip, knee and elbow replacement), fracture repair, stabilization of cranial cruciate ligament deficiency, oncologic (cancer) surgery, herniated disc treatment, complicated gastrointestinal or urogenital procedures, kidney transplant, skin grafts, complicated wound management, and minimally invasive procedures ( arthroscopy, laparoscopy, thoracoscopy) are performed by veterinary surgeons (as registered in their jurisdiction). Most general practice veterinarians perform routine surgeries such as neuters and minor mass excisions; some also perform additional procedures. The goal of veterinary surgery may be quite different in pets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Uvarov
Dame Olga Nikolaevna Uvarov (9 July 1910 – 29 August 2001) was a veterinary surgeon and clinical researcher. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She was a distinguished member of the veterinary profession in every sense, spanning general practice and animal health research as well as veterinary politics and high-level contributions to enlightened legislation affecting animal welfare. Early life Olga Nikolaevna Uvarov was born in Moscow on 9 July 1910. Her father, Nikola Uvarov, was a prosperous lawyer who could trace his ancestry to a Tartar count; although his father was a minor bank clerk. When the October Revolution began in 1917, Uvarov's father sent her, along with her three brothers and their mother, Elena, to his parents to Ouralsk. On the way there, Uvarov's mother died of typhoid fever. Uvarov's father was executed by a revolutionary tribunal in 1920. Orphaned, she and her brothers lived together with their grandfather, witn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McCall (veterinary Surgeon)
Prof James McCall FRCVS (1834, Newton-on-Ayr, Scotland — 1 November 1915) was the founder and the first principal of Glasgow Veterinary College. Life McCall was born in Newton-on-Ayr in 1834. His father owned a transport business between Glasgow and Ayr. It was here that James became involved in the welfare of horses. James studied at Wallacetown Academy and Ayr Academy. He was originally apprenticed as a lawyer in Ayr. Even in his early days he was interested in animals. He worked as a superintendent of the horse department with Messrs Pickford company caring for as many as 1000 horses. McCall attended the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh. After his studies, he practiced in Symington, and in 1857 returned to Edinburgh to become professor of Anatomy and Physiology. In 1859, he moved to Glasgow, and began teaching a few students alongside his work in practice. The number of students grew larger, sufficient that McCall applied for a royal charter to open a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Higgins (veterinarian)
Andrew Higgins PhD is a British veterinarian and scientist. Early life Higgins was born 7 December 1948 in Leeds; his grandfather was former Chief Veterinary Officer Sir John Kelland. Career He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1973 and was commissioned in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps where he served in Northern Ireland and with the British Army Training Team in the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman. He wrote an account of his experiences titled ''With the SAS and Other Animals (2011)''. His military service in Oman led to his appointment as Veterinary Officer for HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said. He then took an MSc in Tropical Animal Health and Production at the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, which led to his appointment as Technical Advisor in the Middle East and North Africa, for The Wellcome Foundation. He published several papers on camel diseases and edited ''The Camel in Health and Disease 1985''. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Herriot
James Alfred Wight (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. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with ''If Only They Could Talk'', first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60 million copies. The franchise based on his writings was very successful. In addition to the books, there have been several television and film adaptations of Wight's books, including the 1975 film '' All Creatures Great and Small''; a BBC television series of the same name, which ran 90 episodes; and a 2020 UK Channel 5 series, also of the same name. Life James Alfred Wight, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hallen
Colonel James Herbert Brockencote Hallen or J.H.B. Hallen Order of the Indian Empire, CIE FRCSE FRCVS (1829 – 20 August 1901) was a British veterinarian who served as Principal of the Dick Vet, Dick's Veterinary School in Edinburgh from for the academic year 1866/67 and later worked in British India. His is best remembered for his role as General Superintendent of Horse Breeding in India and Chief Veterinary Officer to India, for his work on the Indian cattle plagues and for writing manuals on the treatment of horses and livestock, some of which were translated into Hindi and Urdu languages. Life James was the son of veterinary surgeon, Herbert Hallen, who worked with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, Inniskilling Dragoons, and his wife Matilda. Herbert was known for his work with horses, wrote parts of the books by Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, and was involved in the design of the so-called Fitzwygram shoe. James studied Veterinary Science at William Dick (veterinarian), William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Dodd
Sydney Dodd, FRCVS (c. 1874 – 20 October 1926), was a British veterinary surgeon and scientist. He contributed to the development of bacteriology and protozoology in England, South Africa and Australia. Dodd established a research station in Queensland that was to become the Animal Research Institute, and he was the first lecturer in veterinary bacteriology at the University of Sydney. He became one of the foremost bacteriologists in Australia. Family Sydney Dodd was born about 1874 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. His parents were Francis Dodd (born c. 1827, Ireland), and Amy Dodd (born c. 1842, Sittingbourne, Kent). He had at least two older brothers, George and William, and a younger brother Francis. He married Clara (also known as Clare) Annie Brooker, a hospital nurse (born 1879, Chatham, Kent), in 1904 while living in Wealdstone, Middlesex. Dodd died in 1926 after a short illness at his home in Cremorne, Sydney, Australia, and his remains were taken to the Rookwood Crema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter George Burnett Dickinson
Major Walter George Burnett Dickinson FRSE FRCVS TD (22 April 1858 – 6 August 1914) was a British veterinary surgeon, and (officially rather than correctly) one of the first "victims" of the First World War. He did not die in battle, but of a heart attack in Lincolnshire, but nevertheless officially became the first Major and second officer to die during the war. Life He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire on 22 April 1858. Dickinson went to Boston Grammar School, the Alfort Ecôle de Veterinaire in Paris and the New Veterinary College in Edinburgh run by Prof William Williams. He took over his father’s veterinary practice in Boston in 1881, marrying two years later. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and later served as President of the Lincolnshire Veterinary Medical Society. In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, William Owen Williams (son of Prof William Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Cotchin
Ernest Cotchin (23 August 1917 – 27 September 1988) was Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College between 1963 and 1982.Obituary in ''The Independent, Professor Ernest Cotchin'', 13 October 1988, p. 35 He was Vice-Principal of the Royal Veterinary College from 1974 until 1988, and a world expert on neoplasia in domestic mammals. Cotchin's entire career was based at the Royal Veterinary College and, together with contributions to learned journals, he wrote a history of the Royal Veterinary College that was published posthumously with the help of a former colleague, Valerie Carter. His obituary in ''The Independent'' claimed his greatest achievements were in comparative pathology for which he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1964. Life Ernest Cotchin was born on 23 August 1917. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of London. Cotchin's first piece of work was to complete a monograph for the Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Henry Carter
Joseph Henry Carter (1857–1930) was a leading British veterinarian, serving as President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1913/14 and 1920. Life He was born on 5 May 1857, in Bradford, Yorkshire to Joseph Shepherd Carter (died 1905), a farmer's son who trained as a vet at the main London Veterinary School. He was the second of three sons, all of whom became vets. He trained both in London and in Edinburgh (at the Royal Dick Veterinary College). From 1901 to 1913 he was a member of Burnley Town Council, where his veterinary practice was based. On this Town Council he served as Chairman of the Highways and Sewage Committee. During both the Second Boer War and First World War he served as a Veterinary Transport Officer in South Africa. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1905. In 1920 he took over his father's practice in Burnley, Lancashire Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Brancker
Winifred Mary Brancker (1914–2010) was an English veterinary surgeon, best known as the first woman to become president of the British Veterinary Association since its foundation in 1881. Early life and education Mary Brancker was born in Hampstead, London in 1914, the youngest of three children of corn merchant Henry Brancker and his wife Winifred Caroline Eaton. Her brother, Flying Officer (Henry) Paul Brancker DFC and Bar, was killed in action when he was shot down over the Netherlands in 1942. Their cousin was Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker, KCB, AFC. Brancker was educated privately and at Belstead School, Suffolk. She then attended the Royal Veterinary College in London from 1932 to 1937. Career After graduating from the Royal Veterinary College in 1937 (having been one of the first women to attend), Brancker took on the position of assistant in a Lichfield veterinary practice run by Harry Steele-Bodger. When World War II broke out and bomb damage force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Trees, Baron Trees
Alexander John "Sandy" Trees, Baron Trees (born 12 June 1946) is a Professor of veterinary parasitology and a Crossbench member of the House of Lords. Early life Trees was born on 12 June 1946, in Middlesbrough and spent his childhood in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. He was educated at Brumby Junior School and then at Brigg Grammar School between 1957 and 1964. In 1969, he graduated from Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) and therefore qualified as a vet. Academic career Upon graduation, Trees undertook a research expedition to Kenya in 1969 to 1970. He then spent a year as a practising veterinarian in Derby, England. This accumulated into completing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on bovine babesiosis. He joined the veterinary pharmaceuticals company Elanco in Rome, Italy. He was veterinary advisor for the Middle East from 1977 to 1979, veterinary advisor for the Middle East, Turkey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
