MEMOIR 



BORN 1778. DIED 1843. 



CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY — better 

 known as " Nimrod " — stands out pre- 

 eminently as one of, if not the greatest 

 writer on Fox-hunting and Hunters. 



From youth upwards he turned his attention to 

 field sports and country pastimes. 



A little later on he proceeded to the famous school 

 at Rugby, at which he received an excellent classical 

 education — the result of which appears, over and 

 over again, in the classical quotations and allusions 

 that adorn his pages. His writings are sufficient 

 testimony to the excellence of the instruction he 

 received there, and the use he himself made of it in 

 after years. 



On leaving, he accepted a commission and became 

 a Cornet in Sir Watkin Wynne's Fencible Cavalry 

 Regiment, in which he served during the terrible 

 Irish Rebellion of 1798. That sad episode in Irish 

 History is too well known to need recapitulation here. 

 He was very popular and rose rapidly in the regiment 

 remaining with it till it was finally disbanded. Later 

 on he married and settled down in Leicestershire. 



