2 34 Dog Shows and Doggy People 



Mr. W. W. Thomson 



I SEE, by a catalogue of the Alexandra Palace Show of the Kennel 

 Club held in 1877, which lies before me, that the above-named was 

 awarded the champion prize in Collies with his Hero, a black-and-tan 

 show dog. I well remember it, and ever since as well as before that 



date (as I see he took 

 first with Moss and 

 first with Scottie in 



4 Rough and Smooth 



Collies respectively 



I Bj^ at Nottingham in 



1874), he has been to 

 the fore with Sheep- 

 dogs, generally, as 

 I remember his 

 Yarrow, Guelt, Hawk, 

 and other winning 



% 4s J^ Smooth Collies in 



Jm ' ^H Ilta^ l ^ e sevent i es - He 



^ifm jdHJ tel* was an on ma l niem- 



m ^m her of the Collie 



jjljj^ Club, nearly twenty 



Bfl| >' ears a member of 



the Kennel Club, 

 and for some ten 

 years an active mem- 

 ber of the Committee. 

 He has judged ex- 



From photo by Maya!, & Co., Piccadilly,' W. tensively both in this 



MR. w. w. THOMSON country and abroad. 



In exhibiting he has 



been faithful to Sheep-dogs all the time, but occasionally has also 

 shown Blood-hounds, Deer-hounds, Irish Water-spaniels, Beagles, 

 Dandie Dinmonts, and Scottish Terriers. His experiences with 

 dogs date from his sixth year ! when, to use his own words, " I 

 owned my first dog, such a mongrel but I was real proud of him, 

 because he was all my own ! " 



He has found time, in the intervals of -a busy life, to perform his 

 duties as one of the Committee of the far-famed Surrey County 

 Cricket Club, and as such to have brought out the formidable fast 



