Charles James Apperley, an English sporting writer, born in Denbighshire in 1777, died in London, May 19, 1843. After serving for a short time in a cavalry regiment, he began contributing under the name of "Nimrod " a series of articles to "The Sporting Magazine," which through his contributions soon doubled its circulation. The proprietor paid him a handsome annual salary and kept a stud of hunters for his use. His habits were expensive, however, and after the death of this liberal publisher, Mr. Pittman, the new owners of the magazine brought suit to recover moneys advanced; and to escape them "Nimrod "in 1830 established himself in a chateau near Calais. At the request of Lockhart he wrote for "The Quarterly Review " in 1827 some excellent papers, which were afterward collected under the title of "The Chase, the Turf, and the Road." Among his other works are: "Hunting Reminiscences," "Life of a Sportsman," "Nimrod Abroad," "Remarks on the Choice of Horses," and "Treatise on the Horse and Hound." His method of summering horses without throwing them out of condition is now generally adopted in England for hunters.

It consists in feeding them on green food, in large loose boxes, on clay floors, their shoes being taken off, and their systems lowered by gentle alteratives, instead of the old method of turning them out to grass.