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1777. He received his education at Rugby. 

 Young Apperley married early in life, and 

 settled in Warwickshire, where he devoted 

 himself to the pleasures of the Chace. At 

 the age of forty-four this was in 1821 

 he commenced to contribute to the Sporting 

 Magazine ; and in 1830 he deemed it 

 judicious to leave the country and take up 

 his residence in France. 



'Nimrod' had now become well known 

 to his contemporaries as a great authority 

 on the points of both horses and hounds, 

 and on everything connected with 'the 

 noble science of fox-hunting'; and was 

 generally regarded as a fairly good coach- 

 man and judge of driving, and ' had at any 

 rate a long and practical acquaintance with 

 the mails and stage-coaches running upon 

 the great high roads which led to London/ 

 His writings upon these subjects, therefore, 

 were regarded as authoritative. The long 

 interval of time which has elapsed since 

 they were penned has detracted but little 

 from their original value. The works of 



