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.

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.

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".