Noble Huston
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The Reverend Noble Huston (died 1944),{{cite web |url=http://www.irishredandwhitesetters.ca/Wm.%20Gaynor%202010.pdf |title=Sursum Corda |author= |date= |publisher= |accessdate=29 June 2011}} was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Ballynahinch, County Down{{cite web |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/UlsterDirectory1910/Ballynahinch.php |title=Ballynahinch, County Down From the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910 |author= |date= |publisher=Library Ireland |accessdate=29 June 2011}} and a breeder of dogs, credited with saving the Irish Red and White Setter from extinction in the early the twentieth century. According to Anna Redlich in "The Dogs of Ireland" (Dundalgan Press 1949), he "mated his half red and half red and white bitch Gyp to Johnnie, and later on to Glen of Rossmore ... Thus in due time and by judicious selection , he managed to build up a kennel of Red and White Setters..."Quoted at length in{{cite web |url=http://www.irishredandwhitesetterclub.org/redlich.htm |title=The Irish red and white setter, its origin and history |author= |publisher=Irish Red and White Setter Club |accessdate=19 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928130808/http://www.irishredandwhitesetterclub.org/redlich.htm |archive-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}
In addition to his canine pursuits, the Rev. Huston kept bees.
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External links
- [http://www.exclusives-irws.be/history.htm Irish Red and White Setter - Some History of the Breed]
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