Barbara Woodhouse
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Barbara Kathleen Vera Woodhouse (née Blackburn, 9 May 1910 - 9 July 1988) was a well known British dog trainer and television personality. Her 1980 television series Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way made her into a household name in the UK. Her catch-phrase, "walkies", has gone into the English language.
Woodhouse was born in Rathfarnham, Ireland, and lived in Dublin until 1919 when her father died. Her mother then moved the famly to Headington in Oxford. At the age of 16 she went to an agricultural college in Shropshire, after which she returned to Oxford to start a riding school.
In the 1930s Woodhouse became a dog breeder and ran kennels until around 1960.
She married Dr Michael Woodhouse in 1940 and moved to Wiltshire. They had three children.
