The English White Terrier (also known as the White English Terrier) is an extinct breed of dog. The English White Terrier is the failed show ring name of a pricked-ear version of the white fox-working terriers that have existed in Great Britain since the late 18th century. In the rush to create and claim new breeds, competing groups of dog breeders sometimes came up with different names for the same dog, and it was very common for entirely fictional breed histories to be cobbled up as part of a campaign to declare a new breed and create a bit of personal distinction for a dog's originator (to say nothing of sales). In 1894, Rawdon Briggs Lee wondered, in his book Modern Dogs, about the relatively recent origin of the 'English White Terrier' and noted that, 'It has been surmised that the original English White Terrier had been a fox terrier crossed with a white Italian greyhound' (i.e. a toy breed).
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