Doctor Dolittle or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country. Doctor Dolittle has a few close human friends, including Tommy Stubbins and Matthew Mugg, the Cats'-Meat Man. The animal team includes Polynesia (a parrot), Gub-Gub (a pig), Jip (a dog), Dab-Dab (a duck), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Too-Too (an owl), the Pushmi-pullyu, and a white mouse later named simply "Whitey". One inspiration for his character appears to be the Scottish surgeon John Hunter. "The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar
Henry Marsh (bishop) on 27 January 1995. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD). Henry Marsh (bishop) Henry Hooper Marsh (6 October 1898 – 27 January 1995) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 6 October 1898 and educated at University College, Toronto. Ordained in 1925 his first posts were curacies at St Anne, Toronto and St Paul, in the same city. After this he was Priest in charge of St Timothy’s Mission, North Toronto. When this became a parish he was its Rector from 1936 to 1962