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T. Boundy
IN tribute to Terry Boundy (VR , January 3, 2009, vol 164, p 27), Michael Clarkson, Agnes Winter, Chris Lewis and Keith Smith write: Terry Boundy, who died on December 20, 2008, aged 88, was a general practitioner in Montgomery, mid-Wales, for most of his professional life. However, he was no ordinary practitioner, as the long list of awards he received testifies - the Queen's Jubilee medal for service to agriculture in Wales (1977); the R. W. Hall of Barry, Glamorgan prize of the RCVS for excellence in clinical observation and practice (1979); the George Hedley award of the National Sheep Association (NSA), for which the citation said, 'A pioneer in bringing the veterinary profession to the sheep industry' (1982); fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies for a thesis on preventive medicine and management programmes for sheep (1982); the Alan Baldry Award of the Sheep Veterinary Society for outstanding contributions to the society (1987); the silver medal of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (1993); an MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List for services to agriculture (1993); and finally, the Dalrymple-Champneys cup and medal of the BVA (1996).
Terry's family lived in Liverpool, where his father became chief engineer of the Blue Funnel line; he was actually born in Birkenhead, where his heavily pregnant mother went into labour during a visit across the Mersey. However, the Boundy family originated in Cumberland; his grandfather was the publican of the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite. When Terry was at a Sheep Veterinary Society meeting in Cumbria a few years ago, he visited the inn with KS, where, to his delight, he found an old photograph on the bar wall of the front of the inn with the name 'Boundy' clearly visible above the door.
After attending Liverpool Collegiate School, Terry entered Liverpool veterinary school in 1937, and was a student during the time of the legendary John Share Jones, professor of anatomy and the real driving force of the school since it had started in 1904. His final year coincided with the first year of another great veterinary surgeon and teacher, John George Wright, who stressed the importance of farm animals for the future and insisted that the university must develop a field station in...