MR. A. A. DE VERE BEAUCLERK.

From photo by W. H. Pugh, Liverpool.

This gentleman will require no introduction to the greater number of my readers, as he has so often taken a responsible position in connection with many of the largest and most important dog shows in the kingdom, that his duties have brought him into contact with a multitude of Doggy People.

Mr. Beauclerk commenced his connection with show work in 1889, and has acted as Secretary and Manager of Manchester Dog Show since 1896, of the Shows in connection with the Essex Agricultural Society for the past ten years, and of shows at Brighton, Liverpool, Guildford, Tunbridge Wells, Cruft's (eight years), Birkenhead, New Brighton, Colchester, Leominster, South-port, Egremont, etc. Last year, besides being one of the working staff at the National Dog Show, Birmingham, he managed the Crystal Palace Show of the Kennel Club in conjunction with Mr. A. H. Edwardson, and this year he was Sole Manager of the show held at the same place for the same body.

Mr. Beauclerk has the indispensable attributes, for a show manager, of imperturbable temper, plenty of sound common sense, invariable courtesy to all who have to do with him, and great capacity for getting through an immense amount of hard work; and it is no doubt the happy combination of these desirable qualifications in one person that has made the services of this gentleman so much in request.

MR. AND MRS. BEDWELL.

From photo by Alfred Ellis & Walery.

As I have said of some of his colleagues, so I may say of him - if he has any absolutely doggy propensities, he has kept them in check, and not allowed them to interfere with the discharge of his official duties; but it is because of his intimate acquaintance with hosts of Doggy People, and one of those to whom much of the comfort of exhibitor at shows under his management is due, that I am pleased to give an excellent portrait of Mr. Beauclerk (whom the writer has known during all his connection with dog shows), and this slight sketch for the little gallery of Doggy People.