The First Dog Show. 29 



As I have said, a commencement of the extraordinarily 

 popular career of the modern fox terrier was made about 

 thirty-five years since. At that time few dog shows had 

 been held, the first one of all in 1859 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 when Mr. J. H. Walsh (" Stonehenge "), whose works on 

 dogs generally will be alluded to further on, was one of the 

 judges. Needless is it to say that there was not a class for 

 fox terriers then, nor was there at Birmingham, Leeds, and 

 Manchester, following in successive years. Of course, in 

 the variety class for terriers, a few that had run with 

 hounds were entered, but the first class ever arranged in 

 which they were to compete only with their own variety 

 was instituted at the North of England second exhibition 

 of sporting and other dogs, held in Islington Agricultural 

 Hall, June, 1862. Here a division for fox terriers headed 

 the catalogue ; there were twenty entries, and the winner 

 of the first prize was Trimmer, a dog without pedigree, and 

 shown by the late Mr. Harvey Bayly, then of Ickwell 

 House, Biggleswade, later master of the Rufford. If we 

 mistake not, this was a coarsish-looking, workmanlike dog, 

 hound tan and black marked, whose strain was that of the 

 Oakley terriers, the kennels of which were not far away 

 from Mr. Bayly's residence. 



Not, however, through a London show came the public 

 attention to the fox terrier; Birmingham must have the 

 credit thereof. In 1862, when what is now the National 

 Exhibition was held at the Old Wharf in Broad Street, 

 there was a class for "White and Other Smooth-haired 

 English Terriers, except Black and Tan." Here several 

 fox terriers were exhibited, and out of a class of dogs con- 

 taining twenty-four entries, all the prizes went to the then 

 so-called new variety ; the leading honour being taken by 



