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See also:APPERLEY, See also:CHARLES See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1777-1843) , See also:English See also:sports-See also:man and sporting writer, better known as " See also:Nimrod," the See also:pseudonym under which he published his See also:works on the See also:chase and the See also:turf, was See also:born at Plasgronow, near See also:Wrexham, in See also:Denbigh-See also:shire, in 1777. Between the years 1805 and 1820 he devoted himself to See also:fox-See also:hunting. About 1821 he began to contribute to the Sporting See also:Magazine, under the pseudonym of " Nimrod," a See also:series of racy articles, which helped to See also:double the circulation of the magazine in a See also:year or two. The proprietor, Mr Pittman, kept for " Nimrod " a See also:stud of hunters, and defrayed all expenses of his See also:tours, besides giving him a handsome See also:salary. The See also:death of Mr Pittman, however, led to a See also:law-suit with the proprietors of the magazine for See also:money advanced, and Apperley, to avoid imprisonment, had to take up his See also:residence near See also:Calais (183o), where he supported himself by his writings. He died in See also:London on the 19th of May 1843. The most important of his works are: Remarks on the See also:Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, &c. (1831); The Chase, the Turf, and the Road (originally written for the Quarterly See also:Review), (1837); See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life of the See also:Late See also:John Mytton (1837); Nimrod's See also:Northern Tour (1838); Nimrod Abroad (1842); The See also:Horse and the See also:Hound (a reprint from the seventh edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica) (1842); Hunting Reminiscences (1843).
End of Article: APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES (1777-1843)
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