Francis Groome
| Francis Hindes Groome | |
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| Born |
30 August 1851 Monk Soham, Suffolk |
| Died | 24 January 1902 (aged 50) London |
| Resting place | Monk Soham, Suffolk |
| Pen name | The Tarno Rye |
| Nationality | British |
| Relatives | Robert Hindes Groome (father) |
Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 in Monk Soham, Suffolk - 24 January 1902 in London), son of Robert Hindes Groome Archdeacon of Suffolk. A writer and foremost commentator of his time on the Romani people, their language, life, history, customs, beliefs, and lore.
Groome was born at his father's rectory of Monk Soham on 30 August 1851. He was educated at Ipswich School, where his lifelong interest in Romanies was sparked, and continued at Oxford University. He left Oxford without taking a degree, spent some time at Göttingen, and then for 6 years lived with gypsies at home and abroad. He married a woman of Romani blood, Esmeralda Locke, in 1876 and settled in down to regular literary work in Edinburgh.
Groome contributed generously and on a variety of subjects to such publications as the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, Blackwood's Magazine, the Athenaeum, Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, the The Bookman, Chambers' Biographical Dictionary, the Ordinance Gazetteer of Scotland, and as joint editor, with his father and poet Edward Fitzgerald, of "Suffolk Notes and Queries" for the Ipswich Journal.
His article on 'Gipsies', in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, made him known to the world as a gypsyologist. In 1899 he published his most significant book for folklorists, Gypsy Folk-Tales. These well-annotated collections are a significant addition to the comparative study of the world's folktales. He also co-edited the first three volumes of Gypsy Lore Society's Journal, and wrote nineteen brief articles and collections of folktales for it.
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