APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as "Nimrod," the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and the turf. The most important of his works are : Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, etc. (1831) ; The Chase, the Turf and the Road (originally written for the Quarterly Review) (1837) ; Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton (1837) ; Nimrod's Northern Tour (1838) ; Nimrod Abroad (1842) ; The Horse and the Hound (a reprint from the 7th edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica) (1842) ; Hunt ing Reminiscences