Kennel Club Memories of Working Jack Russells

From: The Kennel Club: a History and Record of Its Work‎ (1905) by Edward William Jaquet (PDF, 476 pages):

In addition to the [15 Member Kennel Club] Committee, the general list of [100 Kennel Club] members at this time contained many names which have become household words in connection with dog breeding.

One of the first of these was the Rev. John Russell, of Barnstaple, the sporting parson better known as " Jack " Russell. Mr. Russell joined the Club in 1873, and remained a member until his decease in 1883. At the time of his death he was considered the oldest Fox Terrier breeder in England. He started his strain (the "Jack Russell Terrier") at Oxford, when he was eighteen, and more than fifty years afterwards had pedigrees that he could trace from the time he began to breed them. Mr. Russell's terriers in working condition did not scale more than 15lbs., some even less, and between forty and fifty years ago they formed a very distinct type. He judged Fox Terriers at the Kennel Club Show at the Crystal Palace in June, 1874.
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