John Lewington, A Brief Biography.
I have loved and studied IWs since I was 8 years old and together with my wife Sue, we have owned and shown them for over 30 years. We breed occasionally.
I am a licenced All Breeds judge and have been judging for 24 years.
I have judged across Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, USA and Canada at all breed championship shows and specialties. Some of the larger shows I have judged are:
• IW Club of Canada National Irish Wolfhound Specialty
• IW Specialty New Zealand plus all breeds champ shows in both islands.
• IW Club of New South Wales Specialty
• Potomac Valley and West Coast Regional (IW)
• Rocky Mountains Irish Wolfhound Specialty (twice)
• Apple Valley Kennel Club, California (All Breeds)
• Cheyanne Kennel Club, Wyoming (All Breeds)
• Colorado Springs (All Breeds)
• Scarborough Kennel Club, Canada (All Breeds)
• Troy Kennel Club, NY (All Breeds)
• Albany Kennel Club, NY (twice) (All breeds)
• American National Philadelphia Dog Club (televised) (all breeds)
• Lompoc Hound Spectacular, California (various hounds)
• Saluki Specialty (California)
• New Jersey Kennel Club, NJ (all breeds)
• Alabama All Breeds Champ Show
• Antelope Valley Kennel Club, California (All breeds)
• Leeds Kennel Club, UK (Irish Wolfhounds and Australian Cattle Dogs)
• Limerick Kennel Club, Ireland
• Clonmel Kennel Club, Ireland
• Killarney Kennel Club, Ireland
• Canberra Royal (Toys and Hounds – different years)
• Tasmania Hound Club and Darwin Hound Club
• Plus many groups across Australia.
Other information.
• I served as a Councillor for Dogs SA for three years recently.
• Presented breed lectures in South Australia, Darwin and Tasmania for Trainee Judges.
• Secretary of the IW Club of South Australia (since 1992).
• I work in the theatre industry, and have had small TV and film parts. Also I have given live commentary for Foxsport at Professional Boxing Shows in Adelaide.
• I represented Australia as the National Coach for the Boxing Team in Bangkok for the Kings Cup.
