James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS, 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.

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: a feudal duty or tribute due under English law to a lord on the death of a tenant.

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Eratosthenes Add to list Share. Definitions of Eratosthenes. Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) example of: astronomer, stargazer, uranologist. a physicist who studies astronomy.