52 The Fox Terrier. 



The Burton, Lincolnshire, must not be overlooked, for 

 at the time Dick Burton was first whip there, when 

 Lord Henry Bentinck hunted them himself, considerable 

 care was bestowed upon the terriers, a strain of which 

 the hunt possessed, mostly white-bodied dogs with lemon 

 markings on the head. There is an oil painting still 

 in the possession of the Burton family, a portrait of 

 Dick with some of his favourite hounds and terriers. 

 This must have been painted more than seventy years ago. 

 When Burton retired into private life he took some of these 

 terriers with him, and crossed them with a black and tan 

 dog belonging to Mr. Charles Clarke, Scopwick, a well- 

 known breeder of Lincoln sheep. This was in reality a 

 black and tan fox terrier — not a Manchester terrier — 

 possibly a dog something after the stamp of that engraved 

 and described earlier in the volume — the fox terrier of 1806. 

 From this cross Dick Burton produced black and tan 

 headed dogs, others with marks on the body, and he 

 claimed to be the first individual to introduce these hand- 

 somely coloured terriers to the public. This is an interesting 

 piece of history which I believe has hitherto failed to find 

 its way into print, and there is no reason why the claim 

 should not be allowed, although it is possible that at the 

 same time other admirers of the fox terrier were bringing 

 about similar results through a different cross. In addition 

 to these less known kennels, there were others whose 

 reputation was world-wide rather than local, including the 

 Grove, the Belvoir, the Albrighton, the Atherton, the Duke 

 of Rutland's, and the Brocklesby. 



Here, then, were a sufficient number of strains of diverse 

 blood to perpetuate and improve — even to perfect — any 

 one variety, and our fox terrier classes on the show bench 



