I am pleased to give a speaking likeness of this well-known fancier (who has for more than thirty years been a prominent figure amongst Doggy People), and of two of his celebrated Scotch Deer-hounds, Champions Selwood D'Houran and Callack (who have, between them, taken some thirty-two champion prizes, and are thought to be about the best brace bred and owned by one person).

When the Bloodhound trials were made at the time of the Jack the Ripper outrages, Mr. Hood-Wright's Hector II. divided one stake and won all the rest.

Mr. Hood-Wright has not confined himself to Deer-hounds, but has had many good specimens of Bull-terriers (his first fancy), Blood-hounds, Irish Wolf-hounds, Great Danes, Borzois, and others, and his kennels have taken great numbers of prizes at all the leading shows in the kingdom. Mr. Hood-Wright's strain of Deer-hounds descended from his original bitch Bevis, who was bred from a brace Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale, obtained from The McNeil of Colonsay, N.B.

The services of Mr. Hood-Wright as a judge have often been sought, for which his long experience as a breeder and exhibitor has made him highly capable. At all the leading shows everywhere Mr. Hood-Wright is to be found lending a helping hand, in some capacity or the other, whether exhibiting or not, and he is always sure of a welcome from his hosts of friends wherever he appears.

He has officiated as Hon. Secretary of several of the clubs for the furtherance of the interests of some of the large breeds of dogs. To give any list of the prizes and honours taken by the inmates of the Selwood kennels would take up more space than I have at my disposal, but are they not recorded in the chronicles of the leading shows for the last thirty years?

MR. ROBERT HOOD-WRIGHT.

From photo by J. Bell, Frome.

MR. ROBERT HOOD-WRIGHT'S DEER-HOUND CHAMPION SELWOOD D'HOURAN.

MR. ROBERT HOOD-WRIGHT'S DEER-HOUND CHAMPION SELWOOD CALLACK.

I am sure my readers would consider my little gallery of Doggy People would be incomplete without even this brief sketch of Mr. Hood-Wright, who has been for so many years intimately associated with doggy affairs, and whose absence would be regretted by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.