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ROBERT SMITH SURTEES (1803-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:SMITH See also:SURTEES (1803-1864)  , See also:English novelist and sporting writer, was the second son of See also:Anthony See also:Surtees of Hamsterley See also:Hall, a member of an old See also:Durham See also:family . Educated to be a See also:solicitor, Surtees soon began to contribute to the Sporting See also:Magazine, and in 1831 he published a See also:treatise on the See also:law See also:relating to horses and particularly the law of See also:warranty, entitled The Horseman's See also:Manual . In the following See also: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 humorous narrative of the sporting experiences of a See also:cockney See also:grocer, which suggested the more famous Pickwick Papers of See also:Charles See also:Dickens, is the See also:work by which Surtees is chiefly re-membered, though his novel Handley See also:Cross, published in 1843, in which the See also:character of "Jorrocks " is reintroduced as a See also:master of See also:fox-hounds, also enjoyed a wide popularity . The former of these two books was illustrated by " Phiz " (H . K . See also:Browne), and the latter, as well as most of Surtees's subsequent novels, by See also:John See also:Leech, whose pictures of " Jorrocks " are everywhere See also:familiar and were the See also:chief means of ensuring the lasting popularity of that humorous creation . In 1838, on the See also:death of his See also:father, Surtees, whose See also:elder See also:brother had died in 1831, inherited the family See also:property of Hamsterley Hall, where he lived for the See also:rest of his See also:life . The later novels by Surtees included Hillingdon Hall (1845), in which " Jorrocks " again appears; Hawbuck See also:Grange (1847); Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853); Ask Mamma (1858); See also:Plain or Ringlets ? (186o) ; Mr Facey See also:Romford's Hounds (1865) . The last of these novels appeared after the author's death, which occurred on the 16th of See also:March 1864 .

In 1841 he married See also:

Elizabeth Jane, daughter of See also:Addison See also:Fenwick of Bishopwearmouth, by whom he had one son and two daughters, the younger of whom, Eleanor, in 1885 married John Prendergast Vereker, afterwards 5th See also:Viscount Gort . See R . S . Surtees, Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (See also:London, 1869), containing a See also:biographical memoir of the author; W . P . See also:Frith, John Leech, His Life and Work (2 vols., London, 1891); See also:Samuel See also:Halkett and J . See also:Laing, See also:Dictionary of See also:Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of See also:Great See also:Britain (4 vols., See also:Edinburgh, 1882-1888) .

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