Apperley

Apperley, CHARLES JAMES, an English sporting writer, born in Denbighshire in 1777. Educated at Rugby, he married early, and settled in Warwickshire, where he devoted himself to hunting. In 1821, under the name of 'Nimrod,' he began to contribute such attractive articles to the Sporting Magazine that its circulation was soon doubled. The proprietor paid him handsomely, and advanced him money, but his heirs afterwards brought an action against Apperley for its recovery. Nimrod prudently transferred himself to France, where he chiefly resided during the rest of his life. He died 19th May 1843. His best writings are The Chase, the Turf, and the Road, which appeared in the Quarterly Review (1827), and the Life of a Sportsman, to the 1873 edition of which is prefixed a memoir of himself.