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Welcome to Jorrocks.com

The 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.

Jorrocks: Come Hup I Say-You Ugly Beast
ILLUSTRATION of THE DAY


JORROCKSIAN QUOTE of THE DAY

"Every man shouting in proportion to the amount of his subscription."