- Harrison Weir
Harrison Weir (1824 - 1906) The Father of the Cat Fancy, was an English gentleman and
artist .He organized the first
cat show inEngland , in the Crystal Palace,London , in 1871. He and his brother,John Jenner Weir , both served as a judges in the show.History
In 1866 Weir started working on his Victorian gothic home 'Weirleigh', in the village of Matfield, Kent. Weirleigh was later bought by the Sassoon family and was the birth place of Siegfried Sassoon in 1886. The house still stands today.
Works
Weir was a natural history artist and provided some of the illustrations the Rev
John George Wood 's "Illustrated Natural History" (1853).In 1889, Weir wrote "Our Cats and All About Them" describing and illustrating the pedigree varieties of the time. This was the first pedigree cat book.
Weir was a keen animal fancier and his illustrations of domestic cats, dogs and poultry are probably best known.
External links
* [http://www.pawpeds.com/pawacademy/history/ourcats Paw Peds] - Our Cats and All About Them by H.Weir
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