Hunting Tours; Nimrod Abroad; Northern Tour; The Horse and the Hound.

Charles James Apperley (1777-1843) was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, who following his marriage devoted himself to fox hunting. In 1821 he began to submit articles to The Sporting Magazine under the pseudonym of 'Nimrod' on horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. These articles helped the magazine's circulation double in a few years, and as a result the then proprietor, Mr. Pitman, gave Apperley a handsome salary and picked up the expenses of his tours. Unfortunately, after Pitman's death the owners sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced to him, and in order to escape imprisonment Apperley fled to Calais were he made a living as a writer. His two most famous works The Life of a Sportsman and Memoris of the Life of John Mytton were illustrated by Henry Thomas Alken.