8o Dog Shows and Doggy People 



As a judge Mr. Harding Cox is well known, and has officiatec 

 at all the leading shows, where his name always ensures a bi 

 entry. 



He has been a member of the Kennel Club for the past twenty-three 

 years he served on the Committee for three years in the eighties 

 and was again elected three years back. Last year he was onl) 

 defeated by one vote for the Vice-chair, after having refused ar 

 invitation to stand for the Chairmanship. He is a very regulai 

 attendant at Committee meetings, and some of the most drastic 

 reforms of later days have been carried through on his sponsorship 

 For instance, it was owing to his initiative and organisation that the 

 system of licensed shows was inaugurated. 



As an experienced M.F.H. and M.H. he is most anxious to fostei 

 a scheme for bringing the Kennel Club into more intimate touch 

 with the world of hounds and their masters, and it is more than 

 likely that the ensuing year will see some important steps taken in 

 this direction. 



Mr. Harding Cox was the founder of the flourishing Fox-terrier 

 Club, and an original member of the Committee of the Bull-dog Club. 

 For sake of auld lang syne his name still appears as a member oi 

 these institutions ; but he is, in fact, violently opposed to the 

 specialist clubs as such, their caucuses and their oligarchies. He 

 believes that in the majority of cases such clubs exist far more 

 for the benefit of individual members than for the encouragement 

 and improvement of the respective breeds that they are supposed to 

 support. He holds that " rings " and " monopolies " have been 

 formed that are a standing menace to the interests of the in- 

 dependent breeder and exhibitor, and that the restricted "club 

 list of judges " is responsible for exaggeration of type and general 

 deterioration. 



Our friend is decidedly versatile. Not only did he hunt his own 

 hounds and ride his own racehorses to many a victory, but he has 

 distinguished himself as a pigeon shot, having won many of the most 

 important British and Continental competitions, including the Grand 

 International Cup (England), 1885, tne ^rand Aristocratic Cup, 

 1883 and 1884, the Grand Prix de Cloture, Monte Carlo, 1887, 

 etc. He is also a lover of the leash, and for several years had 

 great success with his Greyhounds, winning, amongst other stakes, 

 the South of England Challenge Cup two years in succession, but he 

 has yet to win a "Waterloo." He has just got together a very 

 smart string, after a long absence from the coursing field, and his 



