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He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. Early life [ edit ] Surtees attended a school at Ovingham and then Durham School , before being articled in 1822 to Robert Purvis, a solicitor in Newcastle upon Tyne .
Mr. John Jorrocks: Created by R.S. Surtees. With Jimmy Edwards, Angela Baddeley, Moyra Fraser, Robin Phillips. John Jorrocks is a down-to-earth cockney who suddenly gives up his job as a grocer to go and become the Squire in the village of Handley Cross.
Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities. Also known as: “Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities; or, The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks, of St. Botolph Lane and Great Coram Street”.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
…chase and the creator of Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer who is as blunt as John Bull and entirely given over to fox hunting. Read More
John Jorrocks (Jimmy Edwards) is a down-to-earth cockney who suddenly gives up his job as a grocer to go and become the Squire in the village of Handley Cross. Jorrocks and his wife (Angela Baddeley) quickly make an impact in the village, particularly since Jorrocks also becomes Master of Foxhounds and has to deal with the local gentry.
Jorrocks' jaunts and jollities : the hunting, shooting, racing, driving, sailing, eccentric and extravagant exploits of that renowned sporting citizen, Mr John Jorrocks / [by R.S. Surtees] ; [illustrated] by Henry Aiken. 1869.
Jorrocks's jaunts and jollities : being the hunting, shooting, racing, driving, sailing, eating, eccentric and extravagant exploits of that renowned sporting citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks by Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864
