Hilda and Paul Monaghan's Tweedsmuir Clumber Spaniels are bred for temperament, type and quality.

We have achieved many awards for Top Stud Dog, Top Sire, Top Brood Bitch and Top Puppy and were delighted to be the Top Breeders over a number of years (1997 to 2010), along with being the Winners of the Grand Final Breeders Team at Crufts in 2011.  Click Here for more about the Tweedsmuir Breeders Team.

We purchased our first Clumber in 1980 - Topvalley Charlie of Belcrum - on the condition he was shown. We went to training classes and the "show bug" got us.  Charlie became a Full Champion at the age of 7 ½ and amassed many awards.  He passed away at the grand old age of 17½.

In 1984, we got our first bitch, Belcrum Beautiful Dreamer (we called her "Tweed") who became the foundation bitch for the Tweedsmuir Kennel.  Although she never claimed her title, she did gain 2 CCs and many Reserve CCs.  She passed away at the age of 15 years.

She was mated to Humberfield Justin Thyme of Oakring in 1986 and produced 6 puppies.  We kept a dog, Tweedsmuir True Blue who went on to be Best of Breed at Crufts (1989), a UK Show Champion.  He was then exported to the USA in 1991.

Her second litter, to Raycroft Shaun, produced 6 puppies, of which one became a Show Champion.

Her last litter, to Sh Ch Raycroft Silvino, produced 4 puppies, of which we kept a dog, Tweedsmuir Top Gun - he gained his title as a Show Champion and was also Top Clumber Spaniel Puppy in 1991 and Top Clumber Dog in 1993 (he was also the Top Clumber Spaniel Stud Dog for 3 years in a row).  

We then bought a bitch in, Marchlands Jazzin It Up At Tweedsmuir.  She was mated to Sh Ch Raycroft Silvino and presented us with 11 puppies, of which 9 survived.  We kept a bitch, Tweedsmuir Tanzy (Ice) who, along with her brother Tobermory,  became a Show Champion. 

Ice was mated to Top Gun and her first litter produced 7 pups, of which 3 became Show Champions.  We kept a bitch, Tweedsmuir High Society (Haley).  She gained her title as a Show Champion at Crufts at the age of 18 months, and took Best of Breed.  A bitch from her second litter was exported to South Africa.  We kept a bitch from Ice's third litter - Tweedsmuir Sweet Briar,  who also gained her title at the age of 17 ½ months and was Best of Breed at Crufts in 2002 and Best Opposite Sex at Crufts the following year.

Haley was mated and we kept a dog, Tweedsmuir Fly The Flag - he was Top Stud Dog in 2002 and 2003, and Top Sire in 1998/99.  He is also the sire of 4 champions.

From her next litter, we kept a bitch,  but because we had already kept Briar from Ice's litter, we decided to let a friend have her to show.  She gained her Show Champion title - a dog from this litter was exported to the USA, where he gained his title at the age of 17 ½ months.

Briar was mated and, from her first litter, we kept a dog, Top Gunner (Thomas).

Tweedsmuir Solitaire,  a full sister to Briar from a later litter,  has just produced her first litter to South African import Nonsuch Café au Lait and their puppies are already winning well.

Sh Ch Tweedsmuir White Hunter ("Dudley") won a Reserve CC at the age of 8 ½ months and gained 7 best puppy awards;  his 2 sisters are also winning top honours. Dudley was the Top Sire in 2006 and Top Stud Dog 2006, 2007 and 2008

Nonsuch Cappuchino ("Gucci"), a South African import,  was mated to Thomas and made a show debut in 2004.