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Dog Shows and Doggy People 



THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK'S JAPANESE SPANIELS 



Mr. Harrison Weir, F.R.H.S., etc. 



I SUPPOSE in the whole range of those artistically interested in 

 all branches of natural history there is no more popular name to 

 conjure with than this gentleman's, who throughout the active years 

 of a long life has devoted his talents with pen and pencil to the 

 great advantage of the people of the age in which he has lived. 

 Mr. Harrison Weir is the oldest living of the Pressmen who attended 

 the old Smithfield Shows when they were held in Aldersgate Street 

 over sixty years since. It was on one of his visits to these shows 

 that he suggested the establishment of dog shows, and although he 

 was not on the Committee or took any apparent share in the work, 

 many of the views he expressed were adopted afterwards by Messrs. 

 Corbett, Brailsford, and others who were connected with the .early 

 shows. 



Mr. Harrison Weir, besides his immense amount of work in 

 designing many of the principal race cups of the United Kingdom, 



