100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE

November 5, 1921

COLONEL Malcolm of Poltalloch in Argyllshire must be given the credit of making the white terrier known. At the beginning of this century they were usually called Poltalloch terriers, and one regrets that an honour which belongs to the gallant Colonel should not have been handed down to posterity, just as ‘Sealyham’ identifies the Edwardes family with that breed. In a sense, a certain distinction should be drawn, since Captain Edwardes actually made his terriers from a prescription that seems to have been lost beyond recall, whereas Colonel Malcolm conceived the idea of perpetuating white specimens of a variety of West Highland terriers that more commonly came brindled or sandy. These terriers have been bred for well over a century and a half in Skye and the western mainland.

1) Henry VIII 2) Lunar 3) Knave 4) Cream/off-white 5) M3. Riddle me this: The egg (such as dinosaurs’ eggs)