BLUE PERSIANS. 



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BLUE KITTENS BRED BY MISS KIKKl'ATKICK. 



(1'hoto : E. Landor, Ealing.) 



Singleton, Miss Savery, Mrs. Eustace, Mrs. 

 Hitchcock, Miss Hooper, Miss Violet Hunt, Miss 

 Humfrey, Mrs. Kennaway, Mr. H. Maxwell, 

 .Mrs. Ponder, Miss Rigby, and Mr. C. W. Witt. 

 There are, of course, a large number of 

 fanciers who, amongst other breeds of cats, 

 keep one or two blues, and several keep 

 blues and silvers only. I think I may safely 

 say that blue Persians have the largest 

 number of admirers, and certain it is that at 

 all our large shows the blue classes are the 

 best filled. At the Cat Club Show held at 

 Westminster in 1899 the number of entries 

 in the blue female class was a record one 

 there were no less than 48, and the blue males 

 mustered 42. 



Seeing, therefore, how popular this 

 breed had become, in April, 1901, I 

 founded and started the Blue 

 Persian Cat Society, a book of 

 v rules was drawn up, and the 

 following ladies and gentlemen 

 appointed as officials of the 

 society : 



Vice-Presidents : Viscountess Gort, Lady Danvers, 

 the Hon. Mrs. Maclaren Morrison, Mrs. Collingwood, 

 Mrs. W. M. Hunt, Miss Violet Hunt, Mrs. Clinton 

 Locke, Mrs. Lionel Marks, Mrs. Herbert Ransome, 

 Mrs. Mackenzie Stewart, Mrs. H. B. Thompson, Mrs. 

 Woodcock, Sir H. Jerningham, K.C.M.G., Sir B. 

 Simpson, K.C.M.G., Rev. P. L. Cosway, Frankfort 

 Moore, Esq., R. Stoiks, Esq. 



Committee : Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Russell Biggs, 

 Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. P. Brown, Mrs. P. Hardy, Mrs. 

 Collingwood, Mrs. H. L. Mocatta, Miss H. Patterson, 

 Mr. Gambier Bolton. 



Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Russell Biggs, i, Garden 

 Court, Temple. 



Hon. Secretary : Miss F. Simpson, 9, Leonard Place, 

 Kensington, W. 



Judges : Lady Marcus Beresford, Mrs. P. Hardy, 

 Mrs. W. M. Hunt, Miss G. Jay, Miss K. Sangster, 

 Miss F. Simpson, Mr. C. A. House, Mr. T. B. Mason, 

 Mr. F. Norris, Mrs. Mackenzie Stewart, Miss E. 

 Goddard, and Miss Kirkpatrick. 



The chief objects of this society are as 

 follow : To promote the breeding and exhibit- 

 ing of blue Persian cats ; to define precisely, 

 and to publish a description of, the true 

 type of blue Persian cat, and to urge the 

 adoption of such type on breeders, exhibitors, 

 and judges, as the only recognised and un- 

 varying standard by which blue Persian cats 

 should be judged ; the improvement of the 

 classification, and, if necessary, the guarantee- 

 ing of classes for these cats at shows supported 

 by the society ; the selection of specialist 



BLUE PERSIAN CAT SOCIETY. 



Founded April 241/1, IQOI. 

 Presidents : Viscountess Maitland, 

 Mrs. Maconochie, Miss Gertrude Jay. 







MRS. ROBINSON S BLUE KITTKNS. 



(Photo: J. Joyner, Cheltenham.) 



