Julian Norton

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Julian Norton
File:Julian Norton.jpg
Born (1972-06-03) 3 June 1972 (age 51)
Castleford, West Yorkshire, England
EducationPembroke College, Cambridge
OccupationVeterinary surgeon, TV personality, author
SpouseAnne
ChildrenTwo
Websitewww.thenakedvet.co.uk

Julian Norton (born 3 June 1972) is a British veterinary surgeon, author and TV personality, best known for his appearances on thirteen series[1][2] of The Yorkshire Vet, which has been broadcast on Channel 5 since 2015.[3][non-primary source needed][4]

Early life[edit]

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.[5]

Career[edit]

Norton attained a certificate in Small Animal Practice in 2007. From 2018 he worked at Rae, Bean and Partners in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire.[6] 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,[7][8] and was awarded the Dalesman "Yorkshireman of the Year 2017".[9]

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[edit]

Norton held the world record for 24-hour tandem indoor rowing in 2010 with friend Roger Brown, an ex-Olympic rower.[10][11]

He has competed in the UK Ironman event, finishing in the top 50 in 2013,[5][12] and represented Britain at age-group level in the European Long Course Duathlon in 2014 and 2015 and at the European Middle Distance Triathlon championships in 2014 and 2015.[13][12][14]

He completed the Patrouille des Glaciers ski mountaineering race from Zermatt to Verbier in 2018.

Personal life[edit]

Norton is a mixed practice veterinary surgeon, in North Yorkshire, where he lives with his wife, Anne and two sons, Jack and Archie.[15][16] He has spent the majority of his working life in Thirsk,[17] working as, first, an assistant, then partner in the practice at which Alf Wight (better known under his pseudonym of James Herriot) had worked.[18][19]

Channel 5/Daisybeck programmes[edit]

From 2015 to 2018, Norton was the main vet featured in the Channel 5 docuseries The Yorkshire Vet. Produced by Daisybeck Studios[20] in Leeds, the show originally featured Norton working as at a vet at Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, alongside Peter Wright.[21][22] The programme became popular, achieving viewing figures of over 2 million and making it one of the channel's most successful shows.[23][24] 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,[25][26] following vets David Melleney, Matt Smith[27] and Shona Searson[27] 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.[28][29]

In 2021, season 13 of The Yorkshire Vet followed Norton as he sets up the Sandbeck Veterinary Centre in Wetherby,[30] 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.[31][27][32][33]

In 2022, Norton presented reports for the Channel 5[34] documentary series Our Great Yorkshire Life,[35] visiting Becky and Ian Sheveling's vineyard in Robin Hood’s Bay[36][37][38][39] for the first episode.[35] Our Great Yorkshire Life also features Norton's co-stars from The Yorkshire Vet (Peter Wright)[40][41] 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[edit]

Filmography[edit]

Television
Year Title Role Channel
2015— The Yorkshire Vet Himself Channel 5
2017 The Wright Stuff Himself – Special Guest Channel 5
2018 Springtime on the Farm Himself Channel 5
2018 Big Week at the Zoo Presenter Channel 5
2020 This Week on the Farm Himself Channel 5
2021 Live: Summer on the Farm[42][43][44] Himself Channel 5
2022 Our Great Yorkshire Life[45] Presenter Channel 5

Books[edit]

Norton has written six books, and he also contributes a weekly column in The Country Week of The Yorkshire Post.[46]

  • Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs: The Life of a Yorkshire Vet. Michael O'Mara. 2016. ISBN 978-1782436836.
  • A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons. Michael O'Mara. 2017. ISBN 978-1782438434.
  • The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet. Great Northern Books Ltd. 2018. ISBN 978-1912101801.
  • On Call with a Yorkshire Vet. Great Northern Books, 2019. ISBN 978-1912101207
  • A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter. Hodder and Stoughton, 2020.ISBN 978-1529378337
  • All Creatures: Heart-warming Tales from a Yorkshire Vet. Hodder and Stoughton, 2021. ISBN 978-1529378399

References[edit]

  1. ^ "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. ^ "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ "The Yorkshire Vet". Facebook.com. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Julian Norton | MBA Literary Agents". Mbalit.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b Parker, Olivia (30 September 2016). "The Yorkshire Vet talks stud alpacas, udder salve and James Herriot's legacy". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Rae, Bean & Partners | STAFF". rbp1. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  7. ^ "An Audience with the Yorkshire Vet". yarmschool.org. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  8. ^ Yorkshire. "An Evening with Julian Norton | King's Hall Ilkley". Bradford Theatres. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Dalesman Awards 2017". Dalesman. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Thirsk pair hope to break rowing machine record". Gazette & Herald. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Celebrities: Pam Ferris, Sir John Major, Cherie Booth, Roger Brown, Julian Norton, John Bercow, Ricky Tomlinson". Thirdsector.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  12. ^ a b "Our Staff". Skeldalevets.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  13. ^ Union, International Triathlon. "Athlete Profile: Julian Norton | ITU World Triathlon Series". ITU World Triathlon Series. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  14. ^ "My Yorkshire: Julian Norton aka the Yorkshire Vet on his favourite people and places". Yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  15. ^ "Julian Norton: Seizing the chance for a camper van escape". Yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  16. ^ "Treating all creatures great and small in new TV show The Yorkshire Vet". Pontefractadcastlefordexpress.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  17. ^ "Yorkshire vet Julian Norton opens independent practice in Thirsk". Darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk.
  18. ^ Centralvet.com, Vision Team -. "Vet departs original James Herriot practice". Vnonline.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  19. ^ "Meet our team of vets, nurses & client support at our new vets in Thirsk". Thirskvetcentre.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  20. ^ "Home". Daisybeckstudios.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  21. ^ "Our Staff". Skeldalevets.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  22. ^ "The Yorkshire Vet". Channel 5. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  23. ^ Utton, Dominic (24 April 2018). "The Yorkshire Vet: How a TV show revived a town's tourist trade". The Daily Express. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  24. ^ "Thirsk is buzzing from The Yorkshire Vet effect". Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  25. ^ "Somerset Road 24/7 Surgery". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  26. ^ "Locations". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  27. ^ a b c "The Yorkshire Vet". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk.
  28. ^ "The Wright Stuff: The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton tells us about a lamb born with 5 legs". 25 April 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2018 – via YouTube.
  29. ^ "Farming realities captured on TV as Yorkshire's Cannon Hall hosts Springtime on the Farm". Yorkshire.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  30. ^ "Meet our team of vets, nurses & client support at our new vets in Wetherby". Sandbeckvets.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  31. ^ "Home". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  32. ^ "Somerset Road 24/7 Surgery". Donaldsonsvets.co.uk.
  33. ^ "The Yorkshire Vet Season 13". Radio Times.
  34. ^ "TV listings guide". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  35. ^ a b "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  36. ^ "Robin Hoods Bay Yorkshire Vineyard". Bayvineyard.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  37. ^ "about". Bayvineyard.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  38. ^ "The Yorkshire sheep farm that became Britain's highest vineyard". Yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  39. ^ "Our Great Yorkshire Life: Scarborough fishing family and Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton to star in new Channel 5 series". Yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  40. ^ Yorkshireman, The (7 January 2022). "Channel 5 Has Launched New Series 'Our Great Yorkshire Life' With 'Yorkshire Vet' Star Peter Wright". The Yorkshireman. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  41. ^ "Our Great Yorkshire Life Season 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  42. ^ "Summer on the Farm with Rob and Dave". Newsletter.co.uk.
  43. ^ "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  44. ^ "My5". My5.tv.
  45. ^ "My5". Channel5.com. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  46. ^ "Julian Norton: Hobbo has pants on his head". Yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2018.

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