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    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition
    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition
    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition
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    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition

    By Theo Marples

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    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses As A Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, And Prepare For Exhibition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781447487579
    The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition

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      The Sealyham Terrier - His Origin, History, Show Points and Uses as a Sporting Dog - How to Breed, Select, Rear, and Prepare for Exhibition - Theo Marples

      HUNTSMAN.

      PREFACE.

      THERE is probably no breed of dog that has grown in public favour and become so numerous in so short a time as has this utility Terrier, which is comparatively a modern creation of the Principality. As a show dog the Sealyham Terrier was first exhibited at a show in Haverfordwest, the town of its origin, on October 3, 1903. Five years later a club for the breed was firmly established, and in another five years a show was organised at Haverfordwest which produced the record entry of 600. About this time another club was instituted for the promotion and encouragement of the Sealyham Terrier, more probably from a working point of view—I refer to the Sealyham Terrier Badger Digging Association, which was founded in 1912; and two years later still another group of Sealyham Terrier enthusiasts formed themselves into the Sealyham Terrier Association. Since that time both a Scottish Sealyham Terrier Club and an Irish Sealyham Terrier Club have been founded, with a view to catering specifically for the Cambrian Terrier in those countries.

      At the present moment the Sealyham Terrier is still forging ahead in public esteem, and at our shows counts in entries among the foremost of the Terrier varieties in point of numbers, which, of course, is a sure index of a dog’s popularity.

      In this monograph I have endeavoured to trace the origin of the Sealyham Terrier by a collation and examination of all the records that are available relative to the breed, and have followed the dog’s growth and development, which have been remarkable, and herewith give my readers the result of that research, and data, together with his history and achievements from the first right up to the present.

      Although the breed has made marvellous progress as a show dog since the comparatively crude specimen which was first exhibited, he has not yet reached the acme of perfection, speaking generally, to which his numerous and growing followers hope to bring him in due time. That the dog has been bred and propagated on such lines as are calculated to enable him to fulfil his specific avocation to the best advantage, is indisputable, and there can be no doubt that the clubs and associations which have been founded to promote the dog’s interests, and particularly the Sealyham Terrier Club, have played a noble part in guiding his development in the right groove.

      The writer has taken a keen interest in the Sealyham Terrier as a show dog from the very commencement, and makes no apology for his humble effort in this work to place before the dog’s many admirers and devotees a concise record of his origin, characteristics, history, and achievements, which the status of the Sealyham Terrier, in his opinion, now claims, and which he hopes may act as a landmark in connection with the breed, and further its future development and progress.

      DUKE OF SEALY

      (By Peer Gynt ex Vic).

      Photo.: Russell and Sons.

      DANDY BACH AND ST. BRIDE’S DEMON.

      CHAPTER I.

      Origin and History of the Sealyham Terrier.

      ORIGIN.

      THE precise origin of the Sealyham Terrier as at present understood is probably wropt in less mystery than that of most breeds of dogs. A concensus of reliable expert opinion, among whom we include Lord Kensington and our old and esteemed friend Mr. Fred W. Lewis, the former a kinsman of his and the latter a near neighbour and friend, declare that the late Captain John Edwardes, of Sealyham, near Haverfordwest, a great huntsman and sport, who died in the ’seventies of last century, is the real founder of the Sealyham Terrier as we know it to-day.

      In the issue of Our Dogs of April 10, 1914, in connection with a discussion which was then running through its pages on the Sealyham, his origin, etc., a Mr. J. H. Annand, of Guildford, whose letter we reproduce, makes the bold declaration that the Sealyham Terrier is far and away the oldest breed of Terrier in Europe, and that this Terrier and the Irish Wolfhound have existed from at least 400 B.C., and were the only dogs in the British Isles in those early times! We presume this correspondent does not mean that a terrier known by the name of Sealyham existed 400 years before the Christian Era, which would be before the village of Sealyham itself existed, or any trace probably of Haverfordwest! We presume this gentleman really means that a rough-haired terrier existed in the British Isles at that time, from which, no doubt, have sprung all the existing varieties in this country. If he means that, then we will not contest his assertion; but if he means the Sealyham Terrier as we know it to-day, then, despite his self-proclaimed great and unsurpassed archæological knowledge, I should strongly dispute the statement.

      Not only is it unnecessary for any purpose for us to attempt to trace the origin of any breed of dog to Noah’s Ark, or even to such dim and distant times as before the Christian Era, when records were few and their verification often impossible.

      I would rather take the more recent records and the statements of such undisputed authorities on the breed as Mr. Fred W. Lewis (perhaps its greatest pioneer), Lord Kensington, Mr. Freeman Lloyd, and others who have had special opportunities of studying the question, and, indeed, some of whom have been personally associated with the late Captain John Edwardes in connection with his sporting adventures and terrier-breeding.

      Before discussing this matter further, I will reprint what these gentlemen wrote in Our Dogs concerning the precise origin of the Sealyham Terrier.

      In Our Dogs of July 16, 1909, Mr. Fred W. Lewis wrote as follows:—

      THE SEALYHAM TERRIER.

      BY FRED W. LEWIS.

      "Comparatively few readers of Our Dogs are aware of the characteristics and origin of the Sealyham Terrier, and a brief description of this famous tyke will, no doubt, prove of considerable interest to those who love a Terrier for its merit as a sporting dog, which after all should be the principal recommendation of every dog bred ostensibly for working purposes.

      The late Capt. Edwardes was an eccentric gentleman of good family and resided at Sealyham, Pembrokeshire, and the Terrier derives its appellation of Sealyham from this fact.

      It is quite 70 years since the founder of the Sealyham Terrier first conceived the idea of evolving a dog combining the anatomical formation of body with the spirit and pluck essential to fit him for the task of bolting a fox or otter, and also for the more trying and strenuous work of marking and staying with his badger until dug out of the latter’s earth. To accomplish this difficult task very great patience and a most resolute disposition were necessary, as it must be borne in mind that at the period of which we write there were comparatively few pure-bred dogs—as we now regard them—available for the youthful enthusiast to experiment with. Capt. Edwardes, however, set to work resolved to overcome all obstacles, and the reputation now enjoyed practically all over the world by these Terriers, but more especially among men who keep dogs only for work, and to whom the idea of a show-ring is equivalent to the proverbial red flag to the bull, shows to what extent the Captain succeeded. Well, what is a Sealyham Terrier? I have at various times for the last thirty years kept and bred these dogs, and well remember the

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