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had some very fine horses. Amongst his best 

 were Shoestrings and Gem, with which he won 

 several races. He afterwards lived at Michel 

 Grove with his brother Richard, and they 

 horsed the Bognor coach, which was occa- 

 sionally driven in first-rate style by Mr. John 

 Walker, who was a member of the B. D. C, or 

 Benson Driving Club, first started in February, 

 1807. For sixteen years after its establishment 

 the members met two days in the year at 

 Benson, in Oxfordshire, and two at Bedfont, 

 fourteen miles from London. 

 The h. h., "The H. H. had a most successful 



1822. season, not having had one blank 



day since the commencement. On Mon- 

 day, November 18, they had a run through 

 Lord Bolton's Park, and the gate being fast at 

 the farther end of it, a gentleman of the name 

 of Apperley charged the pales and got well 

 over, although they were full six feet high." — 

 Hampshire Chronicle. 



Mr. Apperley, This gentleman was the celebrated 

 "Nimrod." Nhnrod, who at that time lived at 

 Beaurepaire ; he was quite a gentleman by 

 birth and education, and at a very early age 

 took to the hunting-field, the race-course, and 

 the road. On all these subjects he wrote 

 amusingly and practically. In his day he was 



