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