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Breed Club

THE

NEWFOUNDLAND

Established 1886

CLUB

T registered breeds.

he Newfoundland Club of Great Britain is
reputed to be the oldest Breed Club in the
world: whilst many of the early records sadly
no longer exist, it is known that in 1886 at All the original Committee members and officers,
numbering 6 in total were male although women
the Brussels Show a group of ‘Gentleman’ were prominent in participating in the showing
determined that something should be done
of the dogs. Over the years the Committee
for the recognition of the ‘grand old breed,
numbers have increased to help deal with the
the Newfoundland’ and thus the Club was
workload of an increasing membership and
established with the aim of proper classification
activity, many of the long serving Club officers
at shows and the appointment of competent
have however been women!
judges. The Club, constituted with at that
time a committee of 6 including an Honorary
Secretary and President was registered with Although the Club Rules have been amended
the Kennel Club in 1891, the purpose of which over the years some of the wording bears a
was ‘To promote the pure breeding of the true similarity to what was originally scripted nearly
Newfoundland and in particular to stamp out 130 years ago.
the half-bred Retriever in order to establish
true type’. A Breed Standard was devised and In the early years prior to the 1920s some
agreed by the Club some 19 years prior to show societies offered two sets of Challenge
the Kennel Club adopting ‘standards’ for their Certificates, one for the Blacks and one for

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