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(1802-1864). Sporting novelist, a country gentleman of Durham, who was in business as a solicitor, but not succeeding, started in 1831 the Sporting Magazine. Subsequently he took to writing sporting novels, which were illustrated by John Leech. Among them are Mr. Sponges Sporting Tour, Ask Mamma, Plain or Ringlets, and Mr. Facey Romfords Hounds. |
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