Phyllis McCarthy (12 March 1903 – 16 February 1986) was a
South Africa
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n breeder of and authority on
Rhodesian Ridgeback
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dogs. She established the Glenaholm Kennels in 1949 in
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (; Zulu: umGungundlovu) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu ...
, South Africa, played a seminal role in the Ridgeback community and produced a long line of Ridgebacks featuring prominently in the ancestry of almost all modern members of the breed.
Biography
Phyllis was born on 12 March 1903, in
Johannesburg
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, South Africa, the second of four children born to George Scarlet Abinger Keeling and Mabel Lydia Moorby, an accomplished painter, poet and composer. Her parents moved to
Durban
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when she was quite young and it was here that she grew to early womanhood and married Victor McCarthy in 1925. They moved onto a large citrus farm (which they named Glenaholm) in Town Bush Valley just out of Pietermaritzburg and turned to raising poultry and a family of five children.
Her eldest son,
Cuan McCarthy
Cuan Neil McCarthy (24 March 1929 – 14 August 2000) was a South African cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches from 1948 to 1951.
Life and career
One of five children born to Victor and Phyllis McCarthy, Cuan McCarthy grew up on "Glena ...
, became one of South Africa's best fast-bowlers and distinguished himself in Test matches against England.
McCarthy died on 16 February 1986, in Johannesburg, at the age of 82.