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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) School of Veterinary Studies, 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. He died on 15 May 1930. Family In 1888 he marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 census; the second-largest population centre in the county after Leeds, which is to the east of the city. It shares a continuous built-up area with the towns of Shipley, Silsden, Bingley and Keighley in the district as well as with the metropolitan county's other districts. Its name is also given to Bradford Beck. It became a West Riding of Yorkshire municipal borough in 1847 and received its city charter in 1897. Since local government reform in 1974, the city is the administrative centre of a wider metropolitan district, city hall is the meeting place of Bradford City Council. The district has civil parishes and unparished areas and had a population of , making it the most populous district in England. In the century leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
