Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robert Smith Surtees

Born: May 17, 1805
Died: March 16, 1864 (aged 58)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Handley Cross (1843)
- Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
- Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
- Plain or Ringlets? (1850)
- Mr. Facey Romford's hounds