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About Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
Everything about Robert Smith Surtees →- Occupation
- journalist, writer, sports journalist
- Position held
- High Sheriff of Durham
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- May 17, 1805
- Died
- March 16, 1864