Charles Bindley
Charles Bindley 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
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 Brighton, 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. 1845–6The Pocket and the Stud, or Practical Hints for the Management of the Stable, 1848The Stud for Practical Purposes and Practical Men, 1849Practical Horsemanship, 1850The Hunting Field, 1850- editor, Delabere Blaine's Encyclopædia of Rural Sports Bipeds and Quadrupeds, 1853Sporting Facts and Sporting Fancies, 1853The World: How to square it, 1854Hints to Horsemen: Shewing how to make Money by Horses, 1856Precept and Practice, 1857, reprinted articles from The FieldThe Sporting World, 1858 Things worth knowing about Horses, 1859.