The author on his favourite Horse Harlequin

Charles Bindley (1795/6–1859) was a British sporting writer, who concentrated on horses and

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, particularly hunting and stable management. He became known under his pseudonym, Harry Hieover.

Life

On his own account, Bindley's background included a fox-hunting father, service in Ireland, and sojourns mainly in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. He wrote for a number of major sporting periodicals. In November 1858, in poor health, he left London for

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, where he was the guest of his friend Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 2nd Baronet. He died there on 10 February 1859, aged 63.

Works

Bindley published: * ''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,

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'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 ''

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'' Bindley wrote a fiction series, "The Two Mr. Smiths, or the Double Mistake".

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External links

Online Books page
;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bindley, Charles 1790s births 1859 deaths 19th-century English writers English journalists