Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.

Jorrocks' jaunts and jollities
1843
ISBN 9781421949888
Mr. Facey Romford's hounds
1865
ISBN 9780862991548
"Ask mamma"
1858
ISBN 9780837140353
Handley Cross
1843
ISBN 9780950769738
Mr. Sponge's sporting tour
1852
ISBN 9780192815217
"Plain or ringlets?"
1800
ISBN 9781845881177
"Ask mamma", or, The richest commoner in England
1800
ISBN 9780862991654
Jorrocks's jaunts and jollities
1843
ISBN 9780548163627
Hillingdon Hall
1845
ISBN 9780950769783
The analysis of the hunting field
1846
ISBN 9780948560118
Hawbuck Grange
1847
ISBN 9780948560088
Young Tom Hall
1926
ISBN 9780948560057
The Analysis Of The Hunting Field Being A Series Of Sketches Of The Principal Characters That Compose One
2005
ISBN 9780548038789
Hillingdon Hall : Or, The Cockney Squire
2015
ISBN 9781018664972
Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities; the Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of ... Mr. John Jorrocks ..
2018
ISBN 9780342881253