 (Briggs, 1894)

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).Lee noted that at the London dogs shows where the breed first appeared in 1863–1864, the dogs were presented in two classes