Mr. A. A. de Vere Beauclerk 



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Agricultural Society for the past ten years, and of shows at 

 Brighton, Liverpool, Guildford, Tunbridge Wells, Cruft's (eight 

 years), Birkenhead, Ne\v Brighton, Colchester, Leominster, South- 

 port, Egremont, etc. Last year, besides being one of the working 

 staff at the National Dog Show, Birmingham, he managed the 

 Crystal Palace Show of the Kennel Club in conjunction with 

 Mr. A. H. Edwardson, and this year he was Sole Manager of 

 the show held at the same place for the same body. 



Mr. Beauclerk has the indispensable attributes, for a show 

 manager, of imperturbable temper, plenty of sound common sense, 



From photo by Alfred Ellis & Watery 



MR. AND MRS. BEDWELL 



invariable courtesy to all who have to do with him, and great 

 capacity for getting through an immense amount of hard work ; 

 and it is no doubt the happy combination of these desirable 

 qualifications in one person that has made the services of this 

 gentleman so much in request. 



As I have said of some of his colleagues, so I may say of him 

 if he has any absolutely doggy propensities, he has kept them 

 in check, and not allowed them to interfere with the discharge of 

 his official duties ; but it is because of his intimate acquaintance 

 with hosts of Doggy People, and one of those to whom much 



