MR. H. PANMURE GORDON, PRESIDENT SCOTTISH KENNEL CLUB.

From photo by James Ewing, Aberdeen.

This gentleman has for many years been a prominent figure amongst Doggy People, not only as a spirited buyer, breeder, and occasional exhibitor of several varieties of dogs, but also as a member of the Committee of the Kennel Club and the President of the Scottish Kennel Club. He has been a zealous supporter and patron of any undertakings for the benefit of dogs and Doggy People, and enjoys popularity with a very large circle of friends and acquaintances in the Doggy World.

After leaving Harrow he went to the University of Bonn, on the Rhine, and then entered the Army with a commission in the 10th Hussars, with whom he passed four years. On retirement from the Army he took up commerce, and was five years in the mercantile firm of Lindsay & Co., Shanghai, China. While there he commanded the Shanghai Mounted Volunteer Rangers during the Taiping Rebellion.

On his return to England he entered the Stock Exchange, of which he has been an active member for the last thirty years; but, although essentially a busy man, he devotes what leisure he has to his favourite hobbies, which are dogs, salmon fishing, and the management of his properties.

He has more especially favoured the breeds of his native land - Collies and Scottish Terriers - and has had from time to time in his kennels many notable specimens of both varieties, as he is a firm believer in breeding from the best materials obtainable, and price does not form an obstacle if a specimen takes his fancy.

To give a list of those which have found a home in the Loud-water Kennels, at Rickmansworth, Herts, would be a lengthy affair - too much so, I fear, for a slight sketch like the present; but many of them have appeared in the prize lists of our leading shows.

He is a member of several of the West End Clubs and the Ranelagh Club at Barnes, and has been a princely supporter of the Scottish Kennel Club, which for the last twenty-five years has held the premier position in Scotland, where Mr. Panmure Gordon is probably the most popular man amongst Doggy People over the border.

He has also been the means of exporting a number of high-class Collies to friends in America, and, but for the difficulties attending the exportation of dogs, much more would have been done in this way, as there is no difficulty in finding buyers of really good dogs at the best prices; but the quarantine arrangements entail so much delay, risk, and expense, that it practically puts the extinguisher on the most ardent breeders and fanciers.

There are probably few, if any, in the ranks of Doggy People who have spent more on his hobby than the subject of this sketch, or done more for the benefit of his fellow-fanciers in many and various ways.

An excellent portrait of this gentleman with one of his Sheepdogs accompanies this slight notice.