Thomas Dalling

On return from war service he joined Sidney Gaiger, Principal of Glasgow Veterinary College, who had laboratories and experimental animals accommodation for his work on sheep diseases.

In 1920, they joined a group of Scottish farmers to found the Animal Diseases Research Association (ADRA), now Moredun Foundation, with the aim of improving the health of livestock, especially sheep.

Here, he was instrumental in integrating the laboratories attached to various agricultural colleges into a national Veterinary Investigation Service for disease monitoring and to feed the research of the CVL.

During the war years, Dalling, George Gould, Sam Hignett and Harry Steele-Bodger, travelled throughout Britain training practising veterinarians in animal problems of wartime economic importance, such as fertility, mastitis and Johne's Disease.

He received multiple honorary degrees: LLD from Glasgow, Toronto and Edinburgh; DSc from Belfast and Bristol; and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the University of Hannover.