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Charles Colling
British stock raiser
Robert Colling
British stock raiser
Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis
Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis
American dog breeder and trainer
Robert Bakewell.
Robert Bakewell
British agriculturalist