Charles Bindley
Charles Bindley (1795/6–1859) was a British sporting writer, who concentrated on horses and field sports, particularly hunting and stable management. He became known under his pseudonym, Harry Hieover.
Life[edit]
On his own account, Bindley's background included a fox-hunting father, service in Ireland, and sojourns mainly in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.[1] He wrote for a number of major sporting periodicals. In November 1858, in poor health, he left London for Brighton, where he was the guest of his friend Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 2nd Baronet. He died there on 10 February 1859, aged 63.[2]
Works[edit]
Bindley published:[2]
- Stable Talk and Table Talk, or Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, 2 vols. 1845–6
- The Pocket and the Stud, or Practical Hints for the Management of the Stable, 1848
- The Stud for Practical Purposes and Practical Men, 1849
- Practical Horsemanship, 1850
- The Hunting Field, 1850
- editor, Delabere Blaine's Encyclopædia of Rural Sports (1852)
- Bipeds and Quadrupeds, 1853
- Sporting Facts and Sporting Fancies, 1853
- The World: How to square it, 1854
- Hints to Horsemen: Shewing how to make Money by Horses, 1856
- Precept and Practice, 1857, reprinted articles from The Field
- The Sporting World, 1858
- Things worth knowing about Horses, 1859.
For Bentley's Miscellany Bindley wrote a fiction series, "The Two Mr. Smiths, or the Double Mistake".[3]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Lock, Julian. "Bindley, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2403. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Laurel Brake; Marysa Demoor (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.
External links[edit]
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bindley, Charles". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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