Mr. Arthur H. Edwardson (Birkenhead) 99 



he be spared to hold the secretarial reins, guiding the destinies 

 of the society, and thereby ensuring the up-to-date and perfect 

 arrangements being continued for the comfort and convenience of 

 both exhibitors and exhibits in future, as during the past fourteen 

 years, at the Annual Show of the Wirral and Birkenhead Agricultural 

 Society. 



Mr. C. S. Fauntleroy 



MR. C. S. FAUNTLEROY is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of the 

 showing public in fact, long before the Kennel Club was started. 



His first win was with 

 a Spaniel at a show 

 held in Holborn : that 

 show was founded 

 by the late Messrs. 

 Holland, Gilbert, and 

 others. Mr. Faunt- 

 leroy for years showed 

 Setters with very fair 

 success, and being a 

 shooting man, just 

 showed what he used 

 in the field. Very 

 few of the breed 

 stopped in England, 

 as the late Mons. 

 Tordrean Loiseau, of 

 Belgium, took all the 

 young ones. 



When the prize 

 lists were altered, and 

 the same dog could 

 be shown in several 

 classes, his dogs 

 stayed at home, and 

 gradually the kennel 

 got smaller. It proves 



by the present entries Mr. Fauntleroy's contention was right, as 

 when he first judged at the Crystal Palace there was something 



MR. C. S. FAUNTLEROY 



