This list is a work in progress… Foxes, Foxhounds and Fox-Hunting, Heath Cranton, Richard Clapham 1932. A History and Description of the Modern Dogs of Great Britain and Ireland: The Terriers, Rawdon Lee 1896. A History and Description of the Fox Terrier, Rawdon Lee, 1890. Hunt and Working Terriers, Captain Jocelyn Lucas 1931. The Dogs […]
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Table Of Fox Hunts And Their Terriers
TABLE OF HUNTS AND THEIR TERRIERSAt the end of 1929/1930 season Compiled by Major Sir Jocelyn Lucas Pack & Name Of Master Breed or type of terriers kept,number in kennel and whether bred or bought. How taken with hounds Type of earths found Aldershot Commans 1928-9 (Major knight Bruce.) Border. 4 bred or bought. Also […]
Otter Hunting With Terriers (1922)
1922 Otter Hunting With Terriersby Richard Clapham Next in importance to the hounds are the terriers, for without their help it would be impossible to eject an otter from his holt. The most important quality in a terrier is gameness, for no matter how well built he is, if he has not the courage to […]
Hunting Brock The Badger (1929)
by J.C. Bristow Noble BADGERS have been hunted in Sussex for centuries, and the interesting animals always seem to have been fairly plentiful in the county. Up to the War almost all districts were being covered by the Kent and Sussex Badger Club, founded by the late Captain Philip Huth, of Wadhurst Hall, near Tunbridge […]
The Incliffes Blacks (1981)
by Nigel Hinchliffe It has been the fashion recently to write articles in the sporting press giving high blown theories and exaggerated claims to the origins of various breeds of terriers. I make no special claim to such knowledge but recommend those in search of this kind of information read the excellent book “the working […]
The Streatly Terrier (1910)
by Mr. E.T. Unwin Members of the working terrier association will be interested in a letter by Mr. E.T. Unwin, for it is to encourage the breeding o terrier of the stamp to be seen at Strealey-on-Thames that the association was formed two years since. Mr. Waldy has done a great deal towards bringing lovers […]
The Patterdale Terriers (1903)
by Lord Decies Sir, -i was much interested in the remarks in your last weeks edition of the Field on the Westmoreland and Cumberland working terriers, and, having kept a book for twenty years of particulars respecting the terrier i have had running with hounds in that district, i can give a good deal of […]
The Sealyham Terrier Peril (1910)
by C.R. Stavely 1910 Sir-I notice that the discussion on “working terriers” has again made its appearance in your columns. Though a breeder of working terrier for over thirty years i have never so far joined in the “worry”, but at last, with your permission, i will “give tongue”. Having started with Jack Russells over […]
The Terrierman And His Charges (1910)
by J. Fairfax Blakeborough There is no more sporting dog in the whole of the genus canine than the terrier, there is no work so misused as that by which it is known. Terrier comes from the Latin-terra-ground, and the essential work of the species which qualities them for inclusion, therein, is their willingness and […]
1920 The Best Type Of Workers
by Richard Clapham No matter how well earth-stopping is attended to, there is always comes a time when a fox gets into a drain, or some other retreat, out of which it is advisable to eject him. There are way and means of bolting a foxes that need not be entered into here; suffice […]