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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.
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 .
Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities (1831, 1838), a collection of tales (a prototype for Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers ), Handley Cross (1843, expanded 1854), and Hillingdon Hall (1843, 1845) all feature Mr. Jorrocks.
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S1.E7 ∙ I Propose Mr. Jorrocks as the Fit and Proper Knight to Represent Our Interests in Parliament
A guide to Mr John Jorrocks, the 1966 BBC Two TV sitcom. Comedy starring Jimmy Edwards as RS Surtees's Cockney grocer character, who becomes a squire and master of foxhounds.
…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
