The subject of this sketch is another of the many cases we see where military men are born sportsmen, and, though not able to indulge their tastes to the full while in the service, invariably take up their hobbies on retirement.

Lieut.-Colonel Cane was at Eton and Woolwich, and served some years in the Royal Artillery, taking part in the Egyptian War. In 1886 he resigned his command, becoming attached to the battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment, which he now heads.

He has always been a lover of dogs and had some about him all his life, and was one of the earliest supporters of the Irish Kennel Association. He is a member of the Committee of the Kennel Club, in which he takes a warm interest, and where his advice and opinions are greatly valued by his colleagues, particularly in matters relating to sporting dogs, of which he has bred and owned many good specimens.

Spaniels are his particular fancy, and of them he has kept most of the varieties used for sporting purposes, and done fairly well with them in England, where there are so many large and good kennels of those dogs, and pretty well swept the boards in his native country, Ireland, where he is President of the Irish Field-spaniel Club, besides being on the Committee of the English Spaniel Club.

Lieut.-Colonel Cane is a Justice of the Peace for Co. Kildare, of which he served as High Sherriff in 1893. He now goes in more for shooting and fishing, but is interested in all kinds of sport, and has done some big game shooting in the Colonies.

From his practical experience his services have been in request as a judge, in which capacity he has acted on several occasions at shows and field trials, chiefly in respect to Spaniels and Irish Setters.

He has an estate, St. Wolstans, Celbridge, Ireland, where his kennels are situated. Some of the best known of his Black Field-spaniels have been Celbridge Capulet, Champion Celbridge Chloe, Celbridge Mercutio, Celbridge Banquo, Maize, Ithuriel, Fortinbras, and others; amongst his Sussex Spaniels have been Celbridge Eldorado and Jonathan Swift.

MRS. CLAUDE CANE.

From photo by Lafayette, Dublin.

Lieut-Colonel Cane does not confine himself to dogs alone, as he is a breeder and successful exhibitor of Scottish cattle, and also gives some attention to the breeding of horses, of which he is very fond.

He has been for many years Chairman of the Dublin District Fishing Board of Conservators, and leads an active and useful life, which accounts for his popularity on both sides of the Channel.

I am glad to be able to give a good portrait of the Colonel, and to include his name amongst the Doggy People referred to in these slight sketches.