P. A. L. Wight

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Dr Peter Albert Laing Wight

FRSE
FRCVS FRCPath (1924–1998) was a 20th-century British veterinarian and expert in poultry research.

Life

He was born in Leeds on 3 July 1924, the son of Norman Laing Wight (b.1898), an executive in a meat company, and his wife Margaret Nevines. His parents belonged to the Fulneck Moravian Church.[1]

When his mother died in 1927, his father sent him to

Second World War. He was educated (as a boarder) at the Fulneck Moravian School in Pudsey, Yorkshire. He spent school holidays at his aunt's farm in Buckden, North Yorkshire.[2]

In 1942, he began studies at the

Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh. He graduated BSc in 1948 and began general practice as a vet in Stockton, but (preferring to work on large animals) assisted Mr Parkinson in Sedbergh in rural Yorkshire, working with farm animals.[2]

In 1952, he returned to the Dick Vet College to undertake a doctorate (DVSM). This specialised in veterinary pathology. In 1953, he began Colonial Service at

Heartwater and Rabies. As these involve the animal's nervous system he moved onto the field of neuropathology.[2]

In 1956, he returned to Britain to work at the

Agricultural Research Council's Poultry Research Centre in Edinburgh under Alan William Greenwood.[2]

In 1976, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alan William Greenwood, Frank Alexander, Sir William Weipers, and John G. Campbell.[4]

In 1981, (jointly with his colleague Tom Newman) he won the year's international award for Poultry Husbandry.

He retired in 1985 and died in Bonnyrigg south of Edinburgh on 11 October 1998.[5]

Family

In September 1949, he married Kathleen Best from Middlesbrough. They had two daughters: Vivien and Annette.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Who's Who in Commerce and Industry vol 14
  2. ^ a b c d SILLER, WALTER G. "PETER ALBERT LAING WIGHT" (PDF). rse.org.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. ^ Wight, P. a. L. (1960). A histological study of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system in scrapie disease of sheep (Report).
  4. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. ^ University of Edinburgh Journal 1999
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