The English Setter 109 
EpMoOND CastTLe SETTERS 
“There is also another celebrated breed at Edmond Castle, near 
Carlisle, Cumberland. This likewise is liver and white, without the tuft. 
These dogs are much lighter and more speedy looking than the tufted ones. 
They are very deep, wide and powerful in the forequarters; well bent in the 
stifles, so much so as to give them a cat-like crouching attitude. 
“Laidlaw was the keeper’s name who had charge of them. These 
setters were noted all over the country for being first class and very enduring. 
“The late Mr. Heythorn, of Melmerby Hall, near Penrith, had this 
breed when he shot with me—at which time I had the shooting at Pitmain, 
Kingussie, Inverness-shire—and first-rate dogs they were. 
“Mr. Garth’s Bess, a winner at the Shrewsbury trials, was from this 
kennel.” 
How far the following strains, which Mr. Laverack refers to, resembled 
what we call black, white and tan, or how nearly they favoured Gordons 
with white markings, we have no means of stating, but are inclined to the 
opinion that they were distinct from the latter, for the reason that Mr. 
Laverack put them in one chapter, devoting the following chapter to the 
Gordon, or black and tan alone, then a chapter to his own breed, finishing 
with another devoted to the Irish setter. This seems conclusive evidence 
that he did not consider them allied to the Gordons, but as varieties of the 
general run of setters. 
Lorp Lovat’s BREED 
Lord Lovat’s breed is named as a black, white and tan: “Another 
celebrated, tested and well-known breed has long been in the possession of 
the evergreen veteran sportsman, Lord Lovat, Beaufort Castle, Beauly, 
Inverness-shire. This strain is black, white andtan. His Lordship shot long 
with Alexander, the late Duke of Gordon, and he informed me that his 
Grace had black and tans, and black, white and tans, but preferred the 
latter. 
“A celebrated dog of Lord Lovat’s black, white and tan named Regent 
was well known in Ross-shire and Inverness-shire. Old Bruce, his Lordship’s 
keeper, told me this dog would never be beaten. Numbers of this strain 
and colour were in Lord Lovat’s kennels when I last saw them. They have 
long been valued by many sportsmen for their excellence and beauty. 
