Although this gentleman has not for some years taken so prominent a place in connection with dogs as he did some time since, I think I should be open to censure if I omitted his name from my gallery of Doggy People.

Before many of the present-day fanciers knew their right hand from their left, Mr. Berrie was breeding Bull-dogs, and a warm supporter of the variety.

Mr. Berrie was born at Long Eaton, in Derbyshire, but is of Scottish extraction, being lineally descended from the Earl of Kilmarnock, who was beheaded after the Scottish Rebellion in 1745.

He is a Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company; and ranks high as a Freemason.

In the earliest annals of Bull-dogs we find his name, either as breeder or in some way mixed up with them, and many good specimens have passed through his hands. I well remember his King Cole (by Dan, the Post Worrier, ex Lady), one of the first he bred and exhibited, a black brindle of grand shape and quality, no deformity about him, active as a terrier, but full of type and character. Venom was another of his breeding I greatly admired. I think she was owned at one time by Mr. R. J. Hartley. She was a lightish brindle, of grand style and quality, of medium size, by Mr. Blewitt's Crib, ex Rose, by Mr. Vero Shaw's Sepoy. Another of the many good specimens bred by Mr. Berrie was Monarch (first Mr. Layton's, then Mr. Oliver's). This was the dog that carried all before him in his day, a large dark brindle, full of type and quality; and I was with his owner when he refused an offer of 500 guineas for him at the Bristol Dog Show, I think in the seventies, from the late Mr. J. W. Gurney, although at that time it was a most unusual figure for any breed of dog!

I was for some years a member of the original Bull-dog Club, of which Mr. Berrie was one of the founders and an active member, and of which he was some years back elected the Perpetual President, and can speak highly of the kindness and courtesy I always received from him, and for such knowledge of the breed as I possess am mainly indebted to him. I feel these few words are most inadequate in dealing with the connection of this gentleman with the Fancy, as he is a good all-round judge, besides of Bull-dogs, of most Non Sporting and Toy varieties; but I have much pleasure in presenting my readers with an excellent portrait of him, and including his name amongst the Doggy People, with whom he has been more or less connected for so many years.

MR. J. W. BERRIE, PRESIDENT OF THE BULL-DOG CLUB.

From a lithograph.