Thomas William Hogarth

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Author, Dog judge, Dog Breeder, Genetics enthusiast and Veterinary Surgeon. Author of several books published in the 1930's about the Bull Terrier and breeding of Bull Terriers.

Thomas William Hogarth was born in Kelso on the borders of Scotland, on 6th April 1901. He attended Kelso High School and Giggleswick School. After the First World War he travelled to and worked in Canada. He bred Bull Terriers in the early 1920's in Scotland with kennel name of Galalaw.

Hogarth travelled extensively in the late 1920's and early 1930's as a dog judge; specially in 1929 judged in South Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, Australia. Also in Argentina in the early 1930's.He attended Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto, (now University of Guelph) in the 1930's, and he graduated in 1937. While he was studying he published four books relating to Bull Terriers in the 1930's, as well as one book on recollections of his dog judging travels, and possibly the only book of verse about Bull Terriers.

Practised as a Veterinary Surgeon at Swanbourne Veterinary Hospital (now known as... Centre), in Perth, Western Australia 1940's to the 1960's. The main customers were dog and cat owners, but he did have the opportunity to deal with the occasional circus animal from visiting circuses. He was involved with early stages of the Guide Dogs for the Blind, Dogs Refuge Home, Western Australian Veterinary Surgeons Board and was patron of the Fremantle Ladies Pipe Band.

In the 1970's and 1980's he was one of a group of West Australian book collectors who were well known on the antiquarian book sale and auction circuit in Perth.

On retirement he lived in Darlington, Western Australia. He occasionally judged at dog shows in his 70's. He bred with his wife Old English Game fowl, and kept a range of dogs in retirement, but never a bull terrier. He died in Perth, Western Australia on Australia Day, 26th January 1999. His wife and son and three grandchildren survived him.

1 Reference
2 1929 Dog Judging and Travel locations
3 Bibliography
4 External link

[edit] Reference

Obituary: Sunday Times Perth.) 28 February 1999, p.44.[1].

[edit] 1929 Dog Judging and Travel locations

These are correlated to some of the text - Travels of a Dog Judge, a 1929 diary in family collection, and catalogues from the dog shows.

January 3 Sangrur, Jind, India
January Patiala, India
January 25-26 Calcutta, India
January 30 Rangoon, Burma
February 8-9 Chutter Manzil, Lucknow, India
February 11-12 Allahabad, India
February 18-19 Bombay, India
February 25 Patiala, India
March 4 Dehra Dun, India
March 8 Calcutta, India
March 15 Colombo, Ceylon
March 27-28 Perth, Western Australia
April , South Australia
April 26-27 Sydney, New South Wales
May 14-18 Ipswich, Queensland
June 3 Newcastle, New South Wales
June 7-8 Melbourne, Victoria
August 2 -3 Ceylon
September 20-21 Durban, South Africa
October Buenes Aires, Argentina

[edit] Bibliography

The Bull Terrier, Manchester: Our Dogs. 1931. First Edition.

The Coloured and Colour Breeding, Galashiels: A Walker & Son. 1932
- Chapter 'Colour Breeding in Bull Terriers' by Major T Grahame and Captain J.N. Ritchie.
- Chapter 'Colour Inheritance in Bull-terriers' by Dr F Fraser Darling