 It was Easter Monday in 1886, that the first meeting
was held to decide to have a "Yorkshire Terrier Club" and it took place in the Oak Room of The Old Cock
Inn, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
There are articles which are of interest to the true Yorkie enthusiast,
which are still available for referencing through the United Kingdom Yorkshire Terrier Clubs and the American Yorkshire Terrier
Club. These publications are vital not only in remembering the history of the dog, but also as a constant reminder to everyone,
exactly what a Yorkshire Terrier was and still is today. Mr Peter Eden (owner of Albert the first Yorkshire Terrier
in the first stud book and many times behind the great Huddersfield Ben) winning and judging dog shows, in 1865 himself took
all 3 prizes for Scotch terriers, details can be found in The Scotsman Newspaper 7th June 1865, other publications such as
The Kennel Review, published in London in the 1880's, The Stock-Keeper & Fancier's Chronicles, The Dog Owners'
Annual, The Ladies Kennel Journal and ofcourse the many many Club Annuals, Our Dogs magazines all hold important information
as to the heritage and indeed conception of these wonderful little dogs, who still breed true to "Colour"
and conformation in the homes of "British" breeders.
The Stock-Keeper, July 30, 1886 published:
Yorkshire Terrier
Club
"A general meeting of the above was held at Halifax, on the 21st inst (July).., Mr Crosley (of Halifax) being
in the chair". "The following members were present:
Messrs. Foster, Taylor,Jessop,Crosley,Alderson,Boothman,Wilkinson,Hitchin
etc".
"The proposed standard of points recently published in the Stock-Keeper was somewhat altered, all the
points being now definitely settled, except with regard to the ears, and hereon it has not yet been decided whether they shall
be cut or uncut".
"The next general meeting is to be held at the Crown and Cushion, Halifax, on Thursday, August
5, at 7.30pm prompt".
Messrs. Hainsworth (of Bury) and Sandham (of Blackburn) were elected members.
H.W.ALDERSON,
Hon Sec.
(Please note: the presence of Mr Jonas Foster, also note for future reference made on history
sections on this site, in particular the name Mr Ed Boothman and Mr G H Wilkinson, as these two men were to come into
dispute on several occasions in the writings,letters reproduced in the Stock-Keeper).
By Mr C H
Wilkinson Stock-Keeper & Fanciers' Chronicle 1887-"Just recently also, there has been formed a Yorkshire Terrier
Club. The first meeting was convened during the Halifax Dog Show last year". (1886) Mr J W Berrie, of
London, afterwards elected as president, had worked hard to get the fancy together, and gave me all the assistance in his
power, I acting as secretary pro tem". "On my resignation as
secretary, Mr H W Alderson (of Leeds) was elected. Mr Alderson was always strong in the fancy, and I believe
was almost at the top of the tree in Yorkshires 20 years ago" (1866).A very good meeting was the result, and after many
other good meetings a standard of points was drawn up and finally settled as follows:
Value of points in judging: Quantity
and colour of hair on back 25, quality of coat 15, tan 15, head 10, eyes 5, mouth 5, ears 5, legs and feet 5, body and general
appearance 10, tail 5 - total = 100". (There is a complete descritpion of all details of the dog, including that of
colour, sizes-weight: divided into two classes: under 5lb and over 5lb, not exceeding 12lbs, and no where is there a mere
mention of any colour white!, so it would seem the colour was set, as is now being judged in the 21st century: Coat: a bright
steel blue, and on NO account intermingled with fawn, light, or dark hairs. And Head: deep tan, not sooty or grey, under the
chin, long hair, and about the same colour as the centre of the head., which should be a bright golden tan and on no account
intermingled with dark or sooty hairs. Ears: to be a deep dark tan. Legs: bright golden tan, well covered with hair, a few
shades lighter at the ends than the roots.)
CLICK HERE TO THE YORKSHIRE TERRIER CLUB UNITED KINGDOM 1898
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Perhaps
it may seem odd to some that when entering a site for the Yorkshire Terrier we should be taken to the subject of the "Parti"
or "Tri" colour as seen in todays American Yorkie, but an explanation is necessary for people wishing knowledge
on the Yorkshire Terrier. The colour "Parti" is associated with American Parti Yorkie
breeders. The word “Parti” originally referred to any breed of dog with “more
than one colour.” "Parti" Yorkshire Terriers, a term unheard of in the United Kingdom for a British
pure bred Yorkshire Terrier. The only colours recognised by the UKKC (United Kingdom Kennel Club) are: confirmation
email from UKKC
"I have checked with our Registrations
team and they will accept only the following 8 colour descriptions when registering a Yorkshire Terrier. No other colour
descriptions are acceptable" further reading here at UKKC:
Black & Tan
/ Steel Blue & Tan / Blue & Tan /
Blue Steel & Tan / Steel Blue / Steel Grey &
Tan / Black,Blue Steel /
Steel Blue, Black
& Tan" (could this be the tri colour Joan was talking about dear?)
http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/199
The UK Parent Club The Yorkshire Terrier Club made a decision very early on in time
that the correct showing colours for the Yorkshire Terrier are the standard colours you see today winners of Club
Shows & Crufts.
"Parti, Colorful / Tri Yorkie" breeders
make claims that other colours, such as white, chocolate, gold dust have always existed within the breed, but were not
accepted and were essentially “banished”, culled by all early breeders, their statements lack foundation and breed knowledge, and are used to justify
the breeding of these almost all white, all gold, all chocolate dogs.
The Nikko's kennels in California America has been referenced
many times on internet sites as being the first kennels to breed these "Parti" lines. Continued referencing by "Parti" breeders
to the Streamglen Kennels of England endeavouring to trace the ancestry of their "Parti / Tri"
coloured dogs, bears no relevance as to how the colour white was inbred into the traditional coloured Yorkshire
Terrier and indeed the Yorkshire Terrier Club of America have a statement, of which can be found in another
index on this site, where by they claim they are infact a designer dog. Streamglen Kennels
in England were Champion UK breeders of Yorkshire Terriers, this is evidence enough that all their dogs (Mr
& Mrs Waldram's) were of the accepted breed standard, NO WHITE there then... However let me enlighten you to the fact
that with the breeding lines of the Nikkos Kennels and indeed Nikkos Rolls Royce Ashley are the Wildweir Kennels: None
so Fair/Fair "N" Square/Indian Relish......and Ch Quarnhill Fusspot and Ch Katie of Elegance. Shall we now start
to point the finger at those dogs also, with their ancestry they hold the names of some very famous Champion dogs: GBCH Munrose
Storm/Beechrise Superb/Pagnell Peter Pan/Burgwallis Little Nip/Johnstounburn...... are we yo believe all these dogs were somehow
to blame for the AMERICAN Parti Scam. How very convenient for another country to look at a pedigree and automatically
blame the originating country to have been the one responsible for these White Yorkie. I am sure the Wildweir kennels were
very concerned and made sure non of their dogs were to blame. Let me tell you (Herr Biewers Streamglen Richard and Nikkos
Streamglen Milday, shared a common ancestry and they were bred from Champion stock, who showed the correct colours, why did
it take 10 years of these two kennels breeding true to colours, before this so called piebald gene errupted? these two
Streamglen dogs were NOT the only pups in their litters, and by the way they had different Dams: Popsy Twinkle Toes/Shandretta/Minivet
Trudi, did all these have the elusive piebald gene then?)
HOW VERY RUDE YET CONVENIENT FOR OTHER BREEDERS TO BLAME
A BRITISH DOG BREEDER, WHOSE ANCESTORS HELD THE COLOURS TRUE FOR THE MESS BOTH AMERICA AND GERMANY HAVE MADE OF THE TRADITIONAL
YORKIE! AND HOW VERY PREDICTABLE THAT THERE WAS A 12 YEAR GAP IN HERR BIEWERS DOGS AND NIKKOS, GLORIA LIPMANS DOGS
COMMING UP WITH A WHITE DOG, CLAIMING TO BE A PURE BRED YORKIE...HOW RUDE!
There is much controvecy as to
the origin of the "Parti / Tri" colour in America. Why have they been an accepted breed colour by AKC (American
Kennel Club) one would ask? The AKC are only a registry and not a BREED CLUB. One could ask the
question - Why would a breeder continue to breed a colour which the breed club has classified as a fault
within the breed? Could it possibly be because these "Parti / Tri" coloured dogs are sold as "Rare"
fetching higher prices for their breeders. How did these colours get into the Yorkie? The truth is hidden well into the
inbreeding lines of these "Parti" colours, a breeder is expected to be honest
when registering their dogs, accidents happen within kennels "Could this be the case" with the first American
"Parti / Tri" dog Nikko's Mickey Spillane TM831173/03 01-94 registered as a Blue/Tan, some
breeders of "Parti" coloured dogs are now claiming this was in-fact the first "Parti
/ Tri" Yorkshire Terrier.
NOW HISTORY TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT A DOG, WHY HAVE WE NOT HAD THESE WHITE DOGS WITHIN
OUR KENNELS, WITHIN OUR HOMES? SURELY WE HAD STREAMGLEN RICHARD AND MILDAY LITTER MATES......THESE TWO DOGS WERE NOT LITTER
MATES! BUT NO WE DO NOT EVEN AFTER 20+ YEARS, DO WE SEE A PARTI YORKIE.....SO IT IS FACTUAL THAT, THE BREEDERS WHOSE COLOURS
SHOWED THE WHITE, WERE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT COLOUR SHOWING UP IN THEIR LINES AND NOT THE ANCESTORS OF THOSE DOGS!
| Ch. Nikko's Rolls Royce Corniche |
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| Owned by Gloria Lipman, B. Humphfries Handler 1982 |
The advert
clip below was taken from Our Dogs magazine in the 1980's proves Streamglen Richard was stud in the UK, for his owners
Mr & Mrs Waldram of the Streamglen Kennels, BEFORE he went to Herr Biewer's Kennels in Germany. So had that dog held
the elusive piebald gene, we most certainly would have had these white colours in our British Yorkie dogs. We would
not have culled them, as some parti Yorkie breeders claim! This is just a ploy they use in their claims that
their AKC (American Kennel Club) registered parti Yorkie colours, are a pure bred Yorkie. The fact that AKC allowed this
colour to be registered with them, only highlights the fact that AKC will register ANY dog, in their attempts to increase
their revenue. The YTCA (Yorkshire Terrier Club America) class the parti colour, as a designer dog of the 21st century and
not a pure bred Yorkie.
Streamglen Richard, Streamglen
Flora, Streamglen Shaun, Streamglen Milady, were ALL champion Traditional Yorkshire Terriers.
This statement
below written on an American "Parti" Yorkshire Terrier web site needs to be explained in more detail :
"As far back as we can trace the parti color has been
in the Yorkshire Terrier. It is a recessive gene that can be traced back to the 1800's"  As far back as who can trace, what is the evidence in this statement to prove where this information
was obtained from. It is a recessive gene that can be traced back to the 1800's....and how and
who would make such an uneducated statement, without providing proof of where they obtained their information from. Research
must always be backed up with credible evidence and not just a persons personal view, used for their own agenda. I would dearly
love to see where the written documentation is for the recessive gene relating back to the 1800's. Firstly we did
not have the scientific capabilities to carryout DNA tests on dogs in those years and secondly the written evidence we do
have from credible writers and which today has not been disclaimed against, is that the originator's of the Yorkie
were the Skye/Clydesdale/Paisley Terriers'. I can only assume then that "as far back" would mean, when the colour
White was introduced into the "Parti" dog would of been when that colour first began to show up in the dog, and
that I believe I have proven to be in 1996, with the Nikko's Kennels in California, some 12 years after the
Biewer was created and bred by Herr Biewer in the early 1980's.
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| "Our Dogs" magazine - 1973 |
The UK of course is where the Pure bred Yorkshire
Terrier originated .. in 145+ years of the Yorkie being at one time one of the most popular breeds in the UK, we have NO
White pure bred yorkies. "Parti or Tri" coloured Yorkshire Terriers as the name suggests are just
that ( inbred colour fault). They hold no mystery or secrets. They should certainly not
be classed as rare and should not be exploited by breeders & sellers. Anyone wishing to
buy a puppy should not be duped into paying any more for that puppy as any traditional colour Yorkie.
We do not have WHITE Yorkshire Terriers in the UK, these are Biewer's, bred in Germany by a man called Herr
Biewer around the 1980's, many years before the first "Parti / Tri" Yorkshire terrier came into the
world in the 1990's.
These "adorable" little dogs are a cousin to the Yorkshire Terrier, called the
Biewer Terrier.
Some breeders of these beautiful little dogs, continue to breed true to
Herr Biewers' wishes of breeding only Biewer to Biewer, and are a credit to breeders. Other unscrupulous breeders breed
these dogs to a Yorkie. In a letter to Frau Biewer she had replied "It
is FRAUD to breed Biewer to Yorkshire". I believe that says it all. The ACH (Allgemeiner Club der Hundefreunde
Deutchland.ev) in Germany were the first Club to register Herr Biewers' dogs....
Article written by Biewer Terrier Club America as confirmation of their breed:
http://biewerterrierorbieweryorkshirealapompon.webs.com/
Click to link Yorkshire Terrier Club America
Click here to read, The United Kingdom Kennel Club recorded information, colours, standard, health topics on the BRITISH Yorkshire
Terrier.
(Please also note, if you should
reproduce anything written herein on this site for your own usage and on your own web sites, please be kind enough as to credit
the writer here, as being the person, whose extensive research and recent trip to London, Colindale Library, under took to
make available to all, the exact articles as being written, in the Stock-Keeper, and not simply copied and pasted someone
elses work. As I have paid for copies of original uncopyright protected documents, purchased from the above
library as my own evidence as to my research, including some very fine original pictures, of such dogs as Bradford Ted, Alfred
the Great, Huddersfield Ben, Kitty,Mozart and Little Wonder)(I have also made available to readers, links to sites where they
are able to research for themselves books written by writers of their days, who used these same pictures in their books. I
feel the importance of actually having at first hand the original articles, gives more credibility to whatever I so publish
on this site)
Therefore, I ask you to kindly do me the favour of posting my http: link from your
site to this, even those clubs whose abhorent dislike for anyone to refute their claims that a Parti/Colourful/Tri/Gold-Dust
Yorkshire as ever having a place in history as a purebred Yorkie, surely if you choose to use my material (as
you do so readily), then it is only polite to credit me with acquiring it, as I am unaware as to where else you would
obtain it from, as the only readable copies are in London and only available by personal appointment at The British Library,
Colindale.My own reading materials used for reference:
The Kennel Club Stud
Book V2 (A record of Dog Shows and Field Trials, for 1874) Frank Pearce. (Field Office, 346 Strand, London)
The Illustrated
Book of the Dog, Vero Shaw B.A. CANTAB., (1881) Cassell,Peter,Galpin & Co.
(Canine Medicine & Surgey by
G Stables C.M., M.D., R.N.)
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Vol.XXX1 New Series Vol.IX (1885-1886)
The
Stock-Keeper & Fanciers Chronicles from 1886-1887, as noted in the writings. I hold original articles.
Modern Dogs
of Great Britain & Ireland, Rawdon B Lee,1894 "Kennel Editor of The Field"
The Dog, by Stonehenge 1896
Our Friend the Dog, Dr Gordon Stables, CM., M.D., R.N. 1898 (Dean & Sons Ltd)
A Manuual of Toy Dogs, 1904 (Mrs
Lesley Williams, writer not breeder).
The Yorkshire Terrier by S Jessop, 1920
Breeders of the British Isles by Darley
Matheson, 1922.
Dogs, History & Development, Edward C Ash 1927.
The Yorkshire Terrier Club, Centenary Collection
of Memorabilia, 1898 - 1998
Edward C Ash, MRAC The Practical Dog Book 1931
Dogs in Britain by Clifford Hubbard 1948
Mrs Annie Swan "Invincia" The Yorkshire Terrier Handbook, 1958 No.28 Dog lovers Library.
Mrs Ethel Munday
"Yadnum" The popular Yorkshire Terrier, 1958.
The Yorkshire Terrier, Hector F Whitehead, 1961
Mona Huxham,
1971 All about the Yorkshire Terrier.
Yorkshire Terriers, T.F.H.1984.
Joan McDonald Brearley, 1984 T.F.H, The Book
of the Yorkshire Terrier.
Yorkshire Terriers, Angela Sayer & Edward Bunting 1988
Yorkshire Terriers, An Owners
Companion, Osman Sameja, 1992.
The Yorkshire Terrier Today, Veronica Sameja-Hilliard, 2000.
The Domestic Dog by
Serpell, Cambridge University Press
www.archive.org a great place for historical books, online ready to read.
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