Writer and passionate equestrian Jeremy James died in Shropshire on 25 September having bravely continued an extended sickness.
Born in Kenya in 1949, trained on the Royal Agricultural School, Cirencester, and the College of Wales, Jeremy James spent his early existence operating with horses and farm animals in Africa and the Heart East.
In 1987 he wrote his first e-book, Saddletramp, which described his adventure on horseback from Turkey to his house in Wales. 3 years later, he rode thru japanese Europe all the way through the cave in of communism and wrote Vagabond in regards to the revel in. Right through the early Nineties he was once Turkish correspondent for a number of broadsheets and magazines, and in 1992 he was once commissioned through the Global League for the Coverage of Horses (ILPH, now Global Horse Welfare) to put in writing its tale in Debt of Honour. He went on to control the Bosnian State Stud. He was once a member of the Lengthy Riders Guild.
All over the past due Nineties he labored as a senior marketing consultant for the ILPH at the marketing campaign in opposition to long-distance shipping of reside horses for slaughter, which introduced him into touch with most of the disappearing horse breeds of Eurasia.
His writing profession reached its zenith with The Byerley Turk, in accordance with the ordinary lifetime of likelihood and destiny of this exceptional horse, who become the primary basis sire of the thoroughbred line. Jeremy’s analysis into this e-book took him to Turkey, the place the foal was once born, to the web page of the Siege of Buda in 1686, the place the warfare horse was once seized through Captain Robert Byerley and ridden again to England. And to Northern Eire the place the pony is recorded as combating within the Combat of the Boyne in 1690, having gained the King’s Plate at Down Royal races. The tale results in 1703 when the Byerley Turk, retired to a lifetime of stud in Yorkshire, dies on the age of 25. Jeremy’s masterpiece has been revealed in lots of editions, translated into Turkish and Slovakian, and located reputation on each side of the Atlantic.
Flamboyant from time to time, but in addition glad in his personal corporate, Jeremy liked other folks, horses and canine, wine and previous friendships. He’ll be overlooked.
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