82 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



branch from. At the first Birmingham show, in 1860, Lord 

 Bagot brought out a team from a strain which had been in 

 his lordship's family for two centuries, and at the same ex- 

 hibition there was entered probably one of the best Blood- 

 hounds ever seen, in Mr. T. A. Jenning's Druid. Known now 

 as " Old " Druid, this dog was got by Lord Faversham's 

 Raglan out of Baron Rothschild's historic bitch Fury, and 

 his blood goes down in collateral veins through Mr. L. G. 

 Morrel's Margrave, Prince Albert Solm's Druid, and Mr. 

 Edwin Brough's Napier into the pedigrees of many of the 

 celebrated hounds of the present day. 



Another famous Druid grandsire of Colonel Co wen's 

 hound of the name was owned by the Hon. Grantley Berke- 

 ley. This typical dog was unsurpassed in his time, and his 

 talent in following a line of scent was astonishing. His only 

 blemish was one of character ; for, although usually as 

 good-tempered as most of the breed are, he was easily aroused 

 to uncontrollable fits of savage anger. 



Queen Victoria at various times was the possessor of 

 one or more fine specimens of the Bloodhound, procured for 

 her by Sir Edwin Landseer, and a capital hound from the 

 Home Park Kennels at Windsor was exhibited at the London 

 Show in 1869, the judge on the occasion being the Rev. Thomas 

 Pearce, afterwards known as " Idstone." Landseer was 

 especially fond of painting the majestic Bloodhound, and he 

 usually selected good models for his studies. The model 

 for the hound in his well-known picture, " Dignity and Im- 

 pudence," was Graf ton, who was a collateral relative of 

 Captain J. W. Clayton's celebrated Luath XI. 



Four superlative Bloodhounds of the past stand out in 

 unmistakable eminence as the founders of recognised strains. 

 They are Mr. Jenning's Old Druid, Colonel Co wen's Druid, 

 Mr. Reynold Ray's Roswell, and Captain Clayton's Luath XL ; 

 and the owner of a Bloodhound which can be traced back in 

 direct line of descent to any one of these four patriarchs may 

 pride himself upon possessing a dog of unimpeachable pedigree. 



