Welcome to Jorrocks.comThe site that shares a love of horse and hound and the great sporting traditions of the English countryside.
Discover a rich and rare sporting literature - Dickens and Thackeray, Nimrod and Beckford, and above all the great R.S. Surtees, who delights generations of readers with his rollicking hunting tales, larger than life characters and a merciless eye for the comic possibilities of horse, hound and rider. View a unique gallery of historic sporting images, gathered from the pages of Punch and popular sporting books and periodicals.
Follow the adventures, in and out of the saddle, of Surtees' supreme comic creation, the inimitable John Jorrocks, sporting citizen of Great Coram Street. Prodigious trencherman, Cockney wit and renowned master of the Handley Cross.
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ILLUSTRATION of THE DAY
Dr. Sebastian Mello
from Handley Cross 1843
illustrated by: John Leech.
JORROCKSIAN QUOTE of THE DAY
"Are you a hard rider, Mr. Jorrocks?"
" 'Ardest in England, mum," replied our friend confidently, muttering aloud to himself, "may say that, for I never goes off the 'ard road if I can 'elp it."
From Handley Cross, chapter 39
by RS Surtees, 1843.
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