Editing English Setter (section)

==Breed development==
The modern English Setter owes its appearance to Edward Laverack (1800–1877), who developed his own strain of the breed by careful breeding during the 19th century in England and to another Englishman, Richard Purcell Llewellin (1840–1925), who founded his strain using Laverack's best dogs and outcrossed them with the Duke, Rhoebe and later Duke's littermate Kate bloodlines with the best results.{{r|ANKCpdf}}
[[File:English setter - Laverack bloodline.jpg|thumb|left|Ch Mallwyd Sirdar, an English Setter from the Laverack bloodline. He was said to be admired by both fanciers and shooting men.]]
Historically, many dogs descending from the same bloodline were referred to by the name of their breeder or owner and the [[nomenclature]]s "Laverack Setter" and "Llewellin Setter" describe English Setters bred by Laverack and Llewellin.{{r|Lotus}} Horace Lytle, one time gundog editor of ''[[Field & Stream]]'', author and a well-known gundog trainer,{{r|Field}} clarified this in the book "How to train your bird dog", which he wrote in 1928:
{{Blockquote|Another tremendous uncertainty exists among the widest possible class of hunters with reference to the so-called Llewellin Setters. Llewellin Setters are nothing more – and nothing less – than English Setters. Llewellin Setters are simply English Setters that trace back to two particular English Setters. They represent a certain definite English Setter ancestry. That's all there is to it. Thus an English Setter may not always be a "Llewellin"; but a "Llewellin" is always an English Setter. Furthermore, the craze for this particular strain that came to this country with the importation of the first "Llewellins" caused ninety per cent of the owners of all Setters that are not either distinctly Irish or Gordon, to refer to their dogs as "Llewellins". Yet in ninety per cent of these cases, the dogs so referred to are not of the Llewellin strain at all. Not one person in a hundred who owns an English Setter can tell even from the pedigree whether the dog is of the Llewellin strain or not. They simply don't know. Most of those who refer to their Setters as "Llewellins" do so because the name is rather euphonious and pleasing to pronounce. Many of those who really do know, insist that their Llewellins be one hundred per cent, and they refer to those that are not as "grades". If there is even as little as 3 per cent "outcross," these few are inclined to feel that the dog is nothing but a rank plebeian. All of which is really ridiculous – at least so think a good many of us who have thought the matter out.{{sfnp|Lytle|1956|pp=38–40|ps=none}}}}
[[File:English setter - Llewellin bloodline.jpg|thumb|Rodfield's Pride, an English Setter from the Llewellin bloodline. He won several stakes in the autumn of 1902.]]
Around 1826, Reverend A Harrison of [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]] in Cumbria sold a male dog called "Ponto" and a female named "Old Moll" to Laverack and this pair formed the foundation of his English Setters. Laverack did not know the exact pedigree of these dogs but maintained the strain had been pure-bred for the previous thirty-five years.{{sfnp|Argue|1993|p=45|ps=none}} Laverack closely inbred to these two dogs for generations and his bloodline was successful in dog shows and as a working dog in [[field trial]]s.{{sfnp|Foss|1977|p=10|ps=none}}

In 1874, C. H. Raymond from [[Morris Plains, New Jersey]] imported the first English Setter from the Laverack bloodline to America.{{r|journal}} The working setter [[Count Noble]] descended from these early imports and is commemorated in the [[Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh]].{{r|AKC}}
Llewellin's strain was based on Laverack's best dogs, which were then [[Outcrossing|outcrossed]] with the bloodlines of his dogs Duke, Rhoebe and later Duke's littermate, Kate. It was Kate bred with Laverack's best hunting males that produced Llewellin's ideals Fd.Ch.Ch. Armstrong's Dash II and later Fd.Ch.Ch Dashing Bondhu.{{sfnp|Graham|1904|pp=49–50|ps=none}} They were the foundation of Llewellin's personal strain known as "Dashing Bondhu". William Humphrey (1882–1963) inherited them from Llewellin in 1925 and continued them pure until his death in 1963.{{sfnp|Argue|1993|pp=52–54|ps=none}}
[[Jim the Wonder Dog]], described as a Llewellin setter, was said to have  "possessed an occult power" and there is a bronze statue of him in a memorial garden on the square in [[Marshall, Missouri]], built to commemorate him.{{r|Jim}}