Charles Bindley (1795/6–1859) was a British sporting writer, who concentrated on horses and field sports, particularly hunting and stable management. He became known under his pseudonym, Harry Hieover.
Life On his own account, Bindley's background included a fox-hunting father, service in Ireland, and sojourns mainly in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. He wrote for a number of major sporting periodicals. In November 1858, in poor health, he left London for Brighton, where he was the guest of his friend Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 2nd Baronet. He died there on 10 February 1859, aged 63.
Works Bindley published:
Stable Talk and Table Talk, or Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, 2 vols. 1845–6 The Pocket and the Stud, or Practical Hints for the Management of the Stable, 1848 The Stud for Practical Purposes and Practical Men, 1849 Practical Horsemanship, 1850 The Hunting Field, 1850 editor, Delabere Blaine's Encyclopædia of Rural Sports (1852) Bipeds and Quadrupeds, 1853 Sporting Facts and Sporting Fancies, 1853 The World: How to square it, 1854 Hints to Horsemen: Shewing how to make Money by Horses, 1856 Precept and Practice, 1857, reprinted articles from The Field The Sporting World, 1858 Things worth knowing about Horses, 1859.
For Bentley's Miscellany Bindley wrote a fiction series, "The Two Mr. Smiths, or the Double Mistake".
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