The Irish Setter 181 
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ADVENT OF PALMERSTON 
“The next dog of note was Dr. Stone’s Dash, but when Palmerston 
came out he eclipsed everything. Palmerston was a dog well on in years 
when he fell into the hands of Mr. Hilliard for show purposes. He was 
bred by Mr. Cecil Moore, who had large shootings and kept his red setters 
for that purpose. When Palmerston was shown it was impossible to give 
his date of birth, and that is ‘not known’ on the records. He was out of 
Kate, a bitch shown by a Mr. Cochrane at Birmingham in 1871, without 
a pedigree or any particulars and with which he won first. Palmerston 
was bred by Mr. Moore before Cochrane got Kate and he was seven 
years old before Mr. Hillard got him for show purposes. When he was 
shown at Belfast in 1875 Mr. Sandell, better known to many. as 
“ Caractacus,” and who was associated with Messrs. Lort and Walker as 
judges, stated that the scales which had for so long been unbalanced as to 
Irish setter type were so no longer. So struck was he by Palmerston 
and such of his get as he then saw, that he obtained an interest in him 
and later on was in charge of the dog when he was being exhibited in 
England. His breeding is not properly stated in the English stud book 
and should be as follows: By Cecil Moore’s Grouse out of his Kate, by 
Mr. Hazzard’s Grouse out of his Belle, by the Earl of Enniskillen’s 
Grouse. Mr. Moore’s Grouse by Mr. Evan’s Shot out of Mr. Lloyd’s 
Kate. 
‘He was a revelation to Irish setter breeders, as were his duushenss 
Kate, Kittie, Mina, Bella and Rose, and believing that this blood would 
be of benefit I commissioned a well known expert to purchase for 
me the best Palmerston bitch he could, to cross with Elcho, which I had 
recently purchased from the St. Louis Kennel Club. Six months later 
my agent wrote: ‘At last I have got the thing to suit you, and am well 
repaid for waiting. I have purchased Cecil Moore’s Rose, an own sister 
to O’Brien’s Kate and Kittie, and to MacHafhe’s Mina and Bella. She is 
in point of quality next to O’Brien’s Kate, and has the loveliest head of the 
lot, without Kate’s can equal it, but she certainly is before her other sisters. 
I really think you never saw such a head on a bitch as that of Rose, while 
for colour she can’t be excelled.’ 
“There is no place more appropriate than this to quote from a brief 
history of. this strain, information for which I obtained from Mr. Moore 
