Although this gentleman is probably known more by name than personally to the majority of my readers, he has had a long connection with the Kennel Club and Doggy People.

He is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Cheshire, with which his family have been associated for generations. At first he was in the 25th King's Own Borderers, which he joined in the year of the Indian Mutiny, 1857, and served at home and abroad until he exchanged in 1864 into the Grenadier Guards, with which he remained until his retirement in 1876.

LIEUT.-COLONEL H. M. CORNWALL LEGH ONE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE KENNEL CLUB.

By permission of the Kennel Gazette.

Being possessed of several thousands of acres of shooting in his native county of Cheshire, he has been all his life a keen sportsman and breeder of several varieties of sporting dogs.

Colonel Cornwall Legh, besides being on the Committee, is one of the Vice-Presidents and a Trustee of the Kennel Club, in which he has for many years taken a warm and active interest, and where his advice and experience on doggy matters generally, and those relating to sporting varieties in particular, are held in great esteem by his colleagues.

LIEUT.-COLONEL LEGH'S FLAT-COATED RETRIEVER PIRATE.

By permission of the Kennel Gazette.

Probably, if we except the President of the Kennel Club, there is no one else amongst Doggy People whose kennel has been associated with so many winners or specimens of high-class quality in Flat-coated Retrievers, of which, I have been informed, he has bred close on 500, in addition to more than 300 of other varieties of sporting dogs, chiefly Pointers and Spaniels.

A few notable Retrievers in this kennel have been the Champions Kite, Twiddle, Talent, Minor II., Malidi, Myra II., Mentor II., Blizzard, Minim, Dudey, Sapper, Buoyant, Twitter, Record, Moral, Seaman, Pirate, Twitt, Mob, Druid, and many more.

Perhaps the most successful of his Pointers were Glory and Hermit II., the former winning in the All Ages Stakes in the International Pointer and Setter Field Trials at Bala in 1894, and the two of them taking second in the Brace Stakes at same trials.

LIEUT.-COLONEL LEGH'S FLAT-COATED RETRIEVER CHAMPION TWIDDLE.

By permission of the Kennel Gazette.

By the kindness of the Kennel Gazette, I am pleased to give the life-like portrait of the gallant Colonel with the Retriever Minor II. ' and the Black Field-spaniel Crackle, which appeared in that paper in the spring of last year, and to include him in my little gallery of Doggy People, with whom his name has long been a "household word" amongst fanciers of sporting dogs, and also portraits of two of his Flat-coated Retrievers, well known on the show benches.