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setter, a term which denotes merely a certain line of 
breeding, of mixed English and Gordon setter blood. 
This family of setters originated in the ’60s of the 
last century, and was a product of Barclay Field’s 
Duke and Thomas Statter’s Rhcebe, or either of them 
or their progeny crossed on any Laverack setter. The 
Duke-Rhcebes had a large percentage of Gordon set- 
ter blood, and so were cross-bred. However, the cross 
produced some grand working dogs and field-trial win- 
ners. So great was the success of the Duke-Rhcebes 
and Duke-Rhcebe-Laveracks in field work and field-trial 
competition, that the superiority of this family was 
generally conceded. It was known for a time as “The 
Field Trial Setter,” and was so known when the first 
importations to this country took place, in 1874. Al- 
though there are many good native setters, so called, 
in this country, the Llewellin is far away the most 
popular with sportsmen. After Mr. Llewellin took up 
the field-trial setter, and bred it for a short time, it 
was called the Llewellin setter. 
The Laverack setter was a strain of dogs bred by 
the late Edward Laverack, who averred that they were 
descended exclusively from Ponto and Old Moll, pur- 
chased by him of Rev. A. Harrison in 1825, and sup- 
posed to have been bred pure during thirty-five years 
prior to that time. However, the Laverack pedigrees 
have been subjected to much hostile criticism. There 
is much good evidence which shows that Laverack in- 
troduced outside crosses into his kennel, and the pedi- 
gree table, published in his work, “The Setter,” con- 
