INTRODUCTION 



I MONG the numerous English 

 writers on the subject of 

 Sporting, very few hold a 

 higher position than does 

 the writer who ultimately 

 assumed the pseudonym of 'Nimrod.' He 

 published about a dozen works, between the 

 years 1831 and 1843. Some of these had 

 previously appeared in the Quarterly Review 

 and the New Sporting Magazine, and were 

 unsigned. They related, generally speaking, 

 to the Chace, the Road, and the Turf, and 

 cognate subjects. 



Charles James Apperley, for that was the 

 real and full name of * Nimrod,' was, the 

 second son of Thomas Apperley, Esq., of 

 Wootton House, Gloucestershire, but is stated 

 to have been born near Wrexham during 



