Robert Smith Surtees Quotes
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Citations
Surtees, Robert Smith. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
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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.