Francis Hindes Groome
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Francis Hindes Groome miscellaneous writer, son of a clergyman, wrote for various encyclopaedias, etc. He was a student of the Gypsies and their language, and published In Gypsy Tents (1880), Gypsy Folk Tales (1899), and an editor of Borrow's Lavengro
(1900). Other works were A Short Border History (1887), Kriegspiel (1896), a novel, and
Two Suffolk Friends (his father and Edward Fitzgerald
).
He worked with David MacRitchie
as editor of the quarterly journal of the Gypsy Lore Society
until its dormancy in 1892.
F.H. Groome is perhaps best remembered for his 6-volume Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland which appears in full at the Gazetteer of Scotland Web Site. It also appears as part of the The Gazetteer for Scotland, produced by the University of Edinburgh
, Scotland
, and is directly searchable within A Vision of Britain through Time.
Groome died 24 January 1902 and was buried at Monk Soham, Suffolk.
Lavengro
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian...
(1900). Other works were A Short Border History (1887), Kriegspiel (1896), a novel, and
Two Suffolk Friends (his father and Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald may refer to:* Lord Edward FitzGerald , Irish revolutionary*Edward Fitzgerald , Irish* Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster * Edward Fitzgerald...
).
He worked with David MacRitchie
David MacRitchie
David MacRitchie was a Scottish folklorist and antiquarian.-Early Life:David MacRitchie was the younger son of William Dawson MacRitchie and Elizabeth Elder MacRitchie. He was born in Edinburgh and attended the Edinburgh Southern Academy, the Edinburgh Institute and the University of Edinburgh...
as editor of the quarterly journal of the Gypsy Lore Society
Gypsy Lore Society
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures. David MacRitchie was one of its founders and he worked with Francis Hindes Groome...
until its dormancy in 1892.
F.H. Groome is perhaps best remembered for his 6-volume Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland which appears in full at the Gazetteer of Scotland Web Site. It also appears as part of the The Gazetteer for Scotland, produced by the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, and is directly searchable within A Vision of Britain through Time.
Groome died 24 January 1902 and was buried at Monk Soham, Suffolk.
External links
- Biography at the Gazetteer for ScotlandGazetteer for ScotlandThe Gazetteer for Scotland is a gazetteer covering the geography, history and people of Scotland. It was conceived in 1995 by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and David Munro of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and contains 15,500 entries as of January 2008, making it one of...