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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Mention
has
been
made
of
Mr.
Murchison,
and
to
him
we
owe
in
a
great
measure
the
start
in
popularity
which
since
the
foundation
of
his
large
kennel
the
Fox-terrier
has
enjoyed.
Mr.
Murchison's
chief
opponents
in
the
early
'seventies
were
Mr.
Gibson,
of
Brockenhurst,
with
his
dogs
Tyke
and
Old
Foiler;
Mr.
Luke
Turner,
of
Leicester,
with
his
Belvoir
strain,
which
later
gave
us
Ch.
Brockenhurst
Joe,
Ch.
Olive
and
her
son,
Ch.
Spice;
Mr.
Theodore
Bassett,
Mr.
Allison,
and,
a
year
or
so
later,
Mr.
Frederick
Burbidge,
the
Messrs.
Clarke,
Mr.
Tinne,
Mr.
Francis
Redmond,
and
Mr.
Vicary.
About
this
time
a
tremendous
impetus
was
given
to
the
breed
by
the
formation,
in
1876,
of
the
Fox-terrier
Club,
which
owed
its
inception
to
Mr.
Harding
Cox
and
a
party
of
enthusiasts
seated
round
his
dinner
table
at
36,
Russell
Square,
among
whom
were
Messrs.
Bassett,
Burbidge,
Doyle,
Allison,
and
Redmond,
the
last
two
named
being
still
members
of
the
club.
The
idea
was
very
warmly
welcomed,
a
committee
formed,
and
a
scale
of
points
drawn
up
which,
with
but
one
alteration,
is
in
vogue
to-day.
Every
prominent
exhibitor
or
breeder
then,
and
with
few
exceptions
since,
has
been
a
member,
and
the
club
is
by
far
the
strongest
of
all
specialist
clubs.
It
will
be
well
to
give
here
the
said
standard
of
points.
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