biography
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Surtees, Robert Smith
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1805–64)
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| biography:
| Journalist and novelist, born in The Riding, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He practised as a lawyer, and later became a justice of the peace and High Sheriff of Durham Co. He started the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, where he introduced John Jorrocks, a sporting Cockney, whose later adventures were contained in the highly popular Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities (1838) and in Hillingdon Hall (1845). His other great character, Mr Soapy Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853). |
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