Charles Bindley
# Charles Bindley

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".

