Robert Smith Surtees (1803 - March 16, 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search County Durham is a county in north-east England. ...

Educated to be a solicitor, Surtees soon began to contribute to the Sporting Magazine, and in 1831 he published a treatise on the law relating to horses and particularly the law of warranty, entitled The Horseman's Manual. In the following year he helped to found the New Sporting Magazine, of which he was the editor for the next five years. To this periodical he contributed between 1832 and 1834 the papers which were afterwards collected and published in 1838 as Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. This article needs to be wikified. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

This humorous narrative of the sporting experiences of a cockney grocer, which suggested the more famous Pickwick Papers of Charles Dickens, is the work by which Surtees is chiefly remembered, though his novel Handley Cross, published in 1843, in which the character of "Jorrocks" is reintroduced as a master of fox-hounds, also enjoyed a wide popularity. The former of these two books was illustrated by "Phiz" (HK Browne), and the latter, as well as most of Surtees's subsequent novels, by John Leech, whose pictures of "Jorrocks" are everywhere familiar and were the chief means of ensuring the lasting popularity of that humorous creation. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. ... Jump to: navigation, search Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... Hablot Knight Browne (June 11, 1815 - July 8, 1882), English artist, famous as Phiz, the illustrator of the best-known books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth in their original editions. ... John Leech (August 29, 1817–October 29, 1864), was an English caricaturist. ...

In 1838, on the death of his father, Surtees, whose elder brother had died in 1831, inherited the family property of Hamsterley Hall, where he lived for the rest of his life. The later novels by Surtees included Hillingdon Hall (1845), in which "Jorrocks" again appears; Hawbuck Grange (1847); Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853); Ask Mamma (1858); Plain or Ringlets? (1860); Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (1865). The last of these novels appeared after the author's death. In 1841 he married Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Addison Fenwick of Bishop-wearmouth, by whom he had one son and two daughters, the younger of whom, Eleanor, in 1885 married John Prendergast Vereker, afterwards 5th Viscount Gort. Jump to: navigation, search 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Authorities

• RS Surtees, Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (London, 1869), containing a biographical memoir of the author
• WP Frith, John Leech, His Life and Work (2 vols, London, 1891)
• Samuel Halkett and J Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain (4 vols, Edinburgh, 1882-1888).

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External links

• Works by Robert Smith Surtees at Project Gutenberg