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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  • Born: May 17, 1805
  • Died: March 16, 1864
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

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.