Brian Sinclair (veterinary surgeon) Ministry of Agriculture's Sterility Advisory unit, rising to become head of the Veterinary Investigation Centre in Leeds. He was the model for the character 'Tristan Farnon' in Wight's semi-autobiographical novels, which were later adapted to the big screen in two films, and television under the name "All Creatures Great and Small". The fictional Tristan was portrayed as a charming rogue who was still studying veterinary medicine in the early books, constantly having to re-take examinations because of his lack of application, often to be found in the pub, and subject to tirades from his bombastic elder brother Siegfried. Unlike his
All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) at all like that, but when we'd really got into it and were producing them at high speed, his friends used to come to me and say, 'You've got him, that's him.'" Upon first meeting Davison, Christopher Timothy joked to Bill Sellars, "Too tall, re-cast!" Davison was concerned: "I thought, 'What if they suddenly noticed I was quite a bit taller than Robert Hardy?'" Timothy continued: "He thought I meant it. He was horrified that I was trying to get him re-cast. I was in no position to do that and I wouldn't have done that joke for the world