title: Charles Bindley
text: # 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".
  
  