Early life
Norton was born and brought up in the mining town of Castleford and went to school in Wakefield at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, before gaining a place to study veterinary medicine at Cambridge University.Career
Norton attained a certificate in Small Animal Practice in 2007. From 2018 he worked at Rae, Bean and Partners in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. He moved to a new independent small animal practice – Sandbeck Veterinary Centre – in Wetherby, West Yorkshire in 2019 and, in March 2021, Norton opened the Thirsk Veterinary Centre with colleagues. Norton also co-authored a paper in the '' Veterinary Record'' 142: 107–109, on the "Measurement of arterial oxygen-haemaglobin saturation in newborn lambs by pulse oximetry". He performs regular "in conversation" events with comedian and stand up poet, Kate Fox, and was awarded the '' Dalesman'' "Yorkshireman of the Year 2017". Norton is connected with various charities and is an ambassador for Cheetah Conservation Fund (www.cheetah.org.uk) and for VetMentor, an organisation to assist potential veterinary students.Sporting achievements
Norton held the world record for 24-hour tandem indoor rowing in 2010 with friend Roger Brown, an ex-Olympic rower. He has competed in the UKPersonal life
Norton is a mixed practice veterinary surgeon, in North Yorkshire, where he lives with his wife, Anne and two sons, Jack and Archie. He has spent the majority of his working life in Thirsk, working as, first, an assistant, then partner in the practice at which Alf Wight (better known under his pseudonym of James Herriot) had worked.Channel 5/Daisybeck programmes
From 2015 to 2018, Norton was the main vet featured in the Channel 5 docuseries ''The Yorkshire Vet''. Produced by Daisybeck Studios in Leeds, the show originally featured Norton working as at a vet at Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, alongside Peter Wright. The programme became popular, achieving viewing figures of over 2 million and making it one of the channel's most successful shows. Since 2018, the programme has followed Norton as he worked at a number of new veterinary practices and added Donaldson’s Vets on Somerset Road in Almondbury as a filming location, following vets David Melleney, Matt Smith and Shona Searson as they go out to see animals in the Huddersfield area and on Cannon Hall Farm. Norton has also featured as a regular guest on '' The Wright Stuff'' as well as ''Springtime on the Farm'' and ''Big Week at the Zoo''. In 2021, season 13 of ''The Yorkshire Vet'' followed Norton as he sets up the Sandbeck Veterinary Centre in Wetherby, a surgery which became one of the three places the series is based at, alongside Grace Lane Vets in Kirkbymoorside and Donaldson's Vets in Almondbury, Huddersfield. In 2022, Norton presented reports for the Channel 5 documentary series ''Our Great Yorkshire Life'', visiting Becky and Ian Sheveling's vineyard in Robin Hood’s Bay for the first episode. ''Our Great Yorkshire Life'' also features Norton's co-stars from ''The Yorkshire Vet'' (Peter Wright) and ''This Week on the Farm'' (Cannon Hall Farm brothers Dave and Rob Nicholson) as presenters and is narrated by Emmerdale actor Dean Andrews.Works
Filmography
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Norton has written six books, and he also contributes a weekly column in The Country Week of '' The Yorkshire Post''. * * * * ''On Call with a Yorkshire Vet''. Great Northern Books, 2019. * ''A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter''. Hodder and Stoughton, 2020. * ''All Creatures: Heart-warming Tales from a Yorkshire Vet''. Hodder and Stoughton, 2021.References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Julian Living people English television personalities 1972 births Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge English veterinarians People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield People from Castleford Writers about Yorkshire