Peter Davison (born Peter M. G. Moffett on 13 April 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984, and as David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites. Since 2011 he has been playing Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.
Read more about Peter Davison: Early Life, Doctor Who (1981–1984 and Later Revivals), After Doctor Who, Views and Advocacy
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“Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
“To you, God the Singer, our voices we raise,
to you Song Incarnate, we give all our praise,
to you, Holy Spirit, our life and our breath,
be glory for ever, through life and through death.”
—Peter Davison (20th century)