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About Harvey Spurgeon Purchase
Harvey was a research Veterinarian, as were both of his sons. He trained at the Royal Veterinary College and Birkbeck College, London and obtained the Membership Diploma in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, M.R.C.V.S. [Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons] and the degree of B.Sc. of the University of London, Holborn, London in 1928. This diploma qualified him to practice veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom and Colonies. After spending a year (1929-30) at the Ministry of Agriculture Laboratories at Weybridge, he was awarded a Colonial Scholarship for a year's study in tropical diseases at the Molteno Institute at Cambridge, as a student of Selwyn College, Cambridge. "The fellowship diploma [F.R.C.V.S. or Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons] was granted in 1931. The work of the Poultry Department at Weybridge has always been essentially practical, research being related to investigation of disease in the field and the development of diagnostic and control methods . . . Weybridge staff have established over the years a fine record for first recognizing various poultry diseases in the UK.
in 1931, Harvey returned to Northern Rhodesia as a Government Veterinary Officer, the first Rhodesia-born veterinarian to hold such a post. They were diseases with typical symptoms like Foot and Mouth with its lameness, Pleuropheumonia with its coughing, and Rinderpest with its diarrhea. When he went to diagnose and control a disease, he traveled on foot with up to 30 Africans with packs on their heads. Harvey was an outstanding shot with the gun, and used it to provide meat for his crew. He knew the languages of the natives and respected them, and knew the countryside well.
After his wedding to Vera Margaret Cooper, they took a ship to Cape Town and traveled by train to Barotseland, near Rhodesia where they lived in the bush under primitive conditions, as an employee of the British Colonial Service.
While visiting in England, when World War II broke out, Harvey was transferred to Kenya, where he became a Veterinary Research Officer at the Veterinary Research Laboratory at Kabete, Kenya. He became the CVRO [Chief Veterinary Research Officer] at Kabete.
While in England in 1948, he was seconded to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. He was a member of an F.A.O. [Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations] Commission visiting Siam and China, as the expert on the control of Rinderpest.
For his valuable services to the Colonies he was awarded in 1952 an O.B.E. [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] by the Queen of the United Kingdom, for his overseas work for the British government.
in 1952 he took early retirement from the Colonial Service and joined cooper and Nephews, South Africa as their Technical Manager, joining the Board of Directors. Dr. Purchase's wide knowledge and experience of both field and research work against the broad background of African conditions made his services invaluable, not only to his South African Company but also to other African Cooper companies and the whole group of Cooper and Welcome Companies throughout the world. They lived in Rosebank, a northern suburb of Johannesburg, S. Africa where he eventually retired."
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Хронология Harvey Spurgeon Purchase
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20 октября 1906
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Chadzombe Farm, near Ft. Jameson, Chipata, Eastern, Zambia (Замбия)
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8 августа 1936
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| 1968 |
5 июня 1968
Возраст 61
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At home in Rosebank, Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa (ЮАР)
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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa (ЮАР)
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