page_title: Old Jock
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Old Jock / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Drawing of the white Fox Terriers Old Jock, Grove Nettle and Old Tartar.
context_page_description: Old Jock, was a Fox Terrier famous during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A mostly white dog, he ran briefly with a hunting kennel before becoming a show dog, most notably with a victory at the show which popularised the Fox Terrier. His main show rivalry was with a dog named Tartar, and along with a dog named Trap, the three were popular sires of the Fox Terrier breed. He was also involved in the early formation of the Jack Russell Terrier and the Dandie Dinmont Terrier breeds.
context_section_description: Although Old Jock has already changed hands on several occasions, prior to the Crystal Palace Show of 1870 he was sold from Mr. W. Cropper to Mr. J.H. Murchinson for the sum of around £60, which was supposedly the dog's weight in silver. It was in Murchinson's possession that Jock died in 1871.
  Three male dogs are considered to be the founding sires of the modern lines of Fox Terriers: Old Jock, Old Trap and Tartar. Of those three, Jock was considered to be more of a terrier than the other two.  Reverend John Russell, who kept his strain of terriers quite pure, once admitted that he had used Old Jock to breed certain qualities into his dogs. Jock was also used to breed certain elements into the Dandie Dinmont Terrier. The very first Fox Terriers in Australia were bred from Old Jock, Grove Nettle and their contemporaries.
caption: Old Jock (far left), Grove Nettle and Tartar, three of the dogs which have led to the modern Fox Terrier.
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