Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Loading
JT![]()
author
Joseph B. Thomas
JOSEPH B. THOMAS (1879-1955) was one of the country’s foremost breeders of the American foxhound and founder of the American Foxhound Club (today’s Foxhound Club of North America).
Born in Boston ...view moreJOSEPH B. THOMAS (1879-1955) was one of the country’s foremost breeders of the American foxhound and founder of the American Foxhound Club (today’s Foxhound Club of North America).
Born in Boston in 1879 to Joseph B. Thomas, Sr., a successful sugar business owner, and Annie Hill Thomas, the family moved to New York when Thomas, Jr. was young. Already a keen sportsman and breeder of Borzoi dogs, known as the “royal dog of Russia,” the young Thomas traveled to Russia upon graduation in 1903. He visited numerous kennels and spent some time as a guest of the Grand Duke Nicholas at Perchina. The duke owned superior dogs and Thomas purchased “Bristri,” who would go on to become champion in the United States. He returned to New York in 1906 to purchase more Borzoi dogs, leading to an increase in popularity of the dog breed in the country.
Following the end of WWI, Thomas became an avid and accomplished fox hunter, establishing kennels and stables in Middleburg, Virginia called Huntlands. His love for dog breeding led him to search throughout Virginia to find red hounds descended from those presented to George Washington by the Marquis Lafayette, and he wrote the book Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages, first published in 1928.
Thomas died in 1955, aged 75.
HUGH CECIL LOWTHER, THE EARL OF LONSDALE, KG, GCVO, DL (1857-1944), was an English nobleman. The second son of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, he succeeded his brother, St. George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale, in 1882. A keen sportsman, he was a founding member and first president of the National Sporting Club.view less