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JOHN HENRY WALSH (1810-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 292 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HENRY See also:WALSH (1810-1888)  , See also:English writer on See also:sport under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Stonehenge," was See also:born at See also:Hackney, See also:London, on the 21st of See also:October 181o . He was educated at private See also:schools, and became a See also:fellow of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons in 1844 . For several years he followed his profession of surgeon, but gradually abandoned it on See also:account of the success of his See also:works on the subject of sport . He removed from the See also:country to London in 1852, and the following See also:year brought out his first important See also:book, The Greyhound (3rd ed . 1875), a collection of papers originally contributed to " See also:Bell's See also:Life." In 1856 appeared his See also:Manual of See also:British Rural See also:Sports, which enjoyed many See also:editions . During the same year he joined the See also:staff of The See also:Field, and became its editor at the See also:close of 1857 . Among his numerous books published under the name of " Stonehenge " are The Shot-See also:Gun and Sporting See also:Rifle (1859), The See also:Dog in See also:Health and Disease (1859; 4th ed . 1887), The See also:Horse in the See also:Stable and in the Field (1861; 13th ed . 1890), See also:Dogs of the British Isles (1867; 3rd ed . 1885), The See also:Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle (1882-1884) . While editor of The Field See also:Walsh instituted a See also:series of trials of guns, rifles and sporting powders extending over a See also:period of many years, which greatly tended to the development of sporting firearms; and his See also:influence upon all branches of sport was stimulating and beneficial . He died at Putney on the 12th of See also:February 1888 .

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