Orleston Toddlekins:
From an article entitled “The Kennel: Some Ladies’ Dogs” in Country Life Illustrated (16 October 1897):
The Bulldog Orleston Toddlekins was purchased a few weeks before the show by Mrs. W. C. Codman, who took advantage of the ladies’ canine gathering to exhibit her purchase before having it transhipped to New York. A daughter of Save Monarch, Orleston Toddlekins is, of course, a good one, and her record of first and special Coventry, and third Bulldog Club Show, was added to at the Ladies’ Show by a first in novice and second in limit. She was bred by Mr. W. Kelsey (pg. 409).
Toddlekins is the perfect name for one of these dogs. I’ve always liked the name “Muggleton” for a bulldog. (It’s a reference to the seventeenth century theologian Lodowicke Muggleton, whose followers were called Muggletonians. Neither Muggleton nor his followers have anything to do with bulldogs. I just think the name sounds very English and proper, but it also has a degree of cuteness that should apply nicely to a bulldog.)
