mais au fait, James Hinks, c'était qui ?

 JAMES HINKS 

 BY MICHAEL HARRIS

 James Hinks was a dog and animal dealer and breeder 

 of fur and feather a man not to be messed with. He was a fighter and a visionary.  

Some one trying to work his way up.

Coming from the city of mulling in Ireland

as a young man with is family

to live in the dirty back street slums of 19th century Birmingham.

 

JAMES HINKS

 {1829 to 1878}

 Working hard as a street dealer before becoming a

 registering trader in the market hall and

running a ale house the The Sportsman at 53 Worcster Street.

He all so severed a short spell in the prison before making his

way up the social ladder.

“Original Bull and Terrier Cross”
From: Vero Shaw,
The Illustrated Book of the Dog 1881

 Mr James Hinks of Birmingham addressed himself

to the task of making a strain of

white bull terriers with

longer heads and more shapely bodies.

 A. Croxton Smith O~B~E

James and his sons {James II and Fred}

were die hard exhibitors.

Competing in around 100 shows in ten years with

there lines of White Bull Terriers and they assorted multitude of k9 delights.

He had to he was a dealer and he had to shift his unwanted stock.

Stock left over at his kennels at The Sportsman Ale House

from his breeding project

unwanted buy him to further

his early pioneering goals.

 

 Nelson

 {1866}

And the more people who would see them 

the more they would wanted them. Not even wasting the colored

marked ones that he most of been producing early on in his program.

Letting them go back in to the old type of bull and terriers.

  Wall i don't think for one mint that he knocked them

on the head do you he was a dealer and he

had to sell all the pups and his old stock

that he did not wont or need.

 

Early Working Type Bull Terrier

The visionary and pioneer of the all new White show Bull Terriers.

He was breeding for looks and show pints from his much talked of

game stock. From the gamest of his White English Terriers

to the most determined off his Bull Dogs and then later on adding a dash of  

the strongest and fittest of his Dalmatian's and dipping

back to the pit bulls when he need to.

  

CRAB

Hinks was experimenting with 

his new lines of dogs producing different types of Bull Terriers

from{15-60 1bs}.

We must salute this extraordinary man James Hinks,

who had the vision to think up the breed,

the skill to produce it and the

personality to impress others with its qualities.

 Tom Horner

{1973}

His stock stud out from all the rest there were

more refined they were longer and cleaner

in body and head than the old type of Bull dogs

and were stronger and longer in the fore face than the pit dogs. 

The old fighting dogs were at last being civilized.

With longer necks and free from the lippiness and the throatiness

of the bull dogs and the ugliness

of the old type of pit bulls and terriers crosses. 

 

 CH SHERBOURNE QUEEN

 With rumours of his dogs gameness in pit fights with the

old type of bull and terriers and the style of his looks this new breed

was taking off for James Hinks and he was

commanding a high price for this sporting gents dog.

A hell of a lot more than the old type as it still does today.

 But i for one don't think that he matched his dog puss that day

no way can a dog fight up hill giving away 20 pounds against

one of the old type of pit bulls for half a hour and not to be

marked and then go on to win in a show the same day it is

unbelievable. But he mite of give her a little five minit

spin to test her in front of a trendy London crowd.

Almost overnight Hinks' White Cavaliers 

established themselves as firm favorites amongst dog fanciers.

Soon they began to develop along an evolutionary

branch quite distinct from the old square-jawed fighting dogs.

A new breed, known today as the Bull Terrier, had been born.

Perhaps no other breed owes so much to one

man as dose the bull terrier to James Hinks.

David O. Harris 

{1990}

 

 ECLIPSE

He most of done some think there that day we are still talking about

it now so wot was the buzz of it all back then like.

I don't think that he matched his dogs. But i have a funny felling that he did with

the ones that he was breeding from to produce his show dogs.

It would of made scenes back then a lot of

breeders gave the dog a test in front of the gent who

was buying against a dog or a badger it happened 

then like it still happens to day.

He did not wont a bad name and to be proud to

send his plucky show dogs anywhere.

 

 CARLENTON HINKS

James II and Fred Hinks carried on there father's work long

after his death still breeding sort after dogs.

Then in 1920 and starting his own breeding porgrame

Carleton Hinks the Son of James II adopted the

affix of Brum under which he made many

Show Champions in the next 30 years. He died in 1977.

 

Gull Terr's

 James Hinks died in 1878 at the age of 49 at Belgrave Road

A middle to upper class part of town making it up that social ladder

and Leaving a K9 legacy that is still going strong

to day in the modern Show Bull Terrier and in

all its different forms all over the would today.

 BY

MICHAEL HARRIS