Lieutenant Colonel William Wayne Apperley

Abstract

William Wayne Apperly was the second son of Charles James Apperley, a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works. William Wynne Apperley, was entered as a cornet of Bengal cavalry in 1823, became superintendent of the central division of the stud department in Bengal, was promoted major in the 3rd European light cavalry in 1854, was remount agent at the Cape of Good Hope 1857–60, and died at Morben, near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, on 25 April 1872, aged 62. (Source: Wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Apperley,_Charles_James_(DNB01))