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GROSE, FRANCIS (c. 1730–1791)

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GROSE, FRANCIS (c. 1730–1791)

GROSE, See also:
FRANCIS
FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)
FRANCIS (c. 1730–1791) , See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

ANTIQUARY

antiquary, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Greenford in See also:

Middlesex, about the See also:

YEAR

year 1730. His See also:

FATHER

father was a wealthy Swiss jeweller, settled at See also:

Richmond, See also:

Surrey. Grose See also:

early showed an See also:

INTEREST

interest in See also:

HERALDRY

heraldry and antiquities, and his father procured him a position in the Heralds' See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College. In 1763, being then Richmond See also:

HERALD (O. Fr. heraut, herault; the origin is uncertain, but O.H.G. heren, to call, or hariwald, leader of an army, have been proposed; the Gr. equivalent is Kddpvi : Lat. praeco, caduceator, fetialis)

Herald, he sold his See also:

TABARD

tabard, and shortly afterwards became See also:

ADJUTANT (from Lat. adjutare, to aid)

adjutant and paymaster of the See also:

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire See also:

MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia, where, as he himself humorously observed, the only See also:

account-books he kept were his right and See also:

LEFT

left pockets, into the one of which he received, and from the other of which he paid. This carelessness exposed him to serious See also:

FINANCIAL

financial difficulties; and after a vain See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to repair them by' accepting a captaincy in the Surrey militia, the See also:

FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune left him by his father being squandered, he began to turn to account his excellent See also:

EDUCATION

education and his See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as a draughtsman. In 1757 he had been elected See also:

FELLOW

fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1773 he began to publish his Antiquities of See also:

England and See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, a See also:

WORK

work which brought him See also:

MONEY

money as well as fame. This, with its supplementary parts See also:

RELATING

relating to the Channel Islands, was not completed till 1787. In 1789 he set out on an antiquarian tour through See also:

Scotland, and in the course of this See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey met See also:

Burns, who composed in his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the famous See also:

SONG

song beginning " See also:

Ken ye aught o' See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Grose," and in that other poem, still more famous, "-Hear, See also:

LAND

land o' cakes, and brither Scots," warned all Scotsmen of this " chield amang them taking notes." In 1790 he began to publish the results of what Burns called " his peregrinations through Scotland;" but he had not finished the work when he bethought himself of going over to See also:

Ireland and doing for that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country what he had already done for See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain. About a See also:

month after his arrival, while in See also:

DUBLIN

Dublin, he died in an apoplectic See also:

fit at the See also:

DINNER

dinner-table of a friend, on the 12th of See also:

JUNE

June 1791. Grose was a sort of antiquarian Falstaff—at least he possessed in a striking degree the See also:

knight's See also:

PHYSICAL

physical peculiarities; but he was a See also:

man of true honour and charity, a valuable friend, " overlooking little faults and seeking out greater virtues," and an inimitable boon See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion.

His See also:

HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, his varied knowledge and his See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good nature were all eminently calculated to make him a favourite in society. As Burns says of him " But See also:

wad ye see him in his See also:

GLEE

glee, For meikle glee and fun has he, Then set him down, and twa or three See also:

GUDE (Gumus), MARQUARD (1635–1689)

Gude See also:

FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

fellows wi' him; And See also:

PORT

port, 0 port! shine See also:

thou a wee, And THEN yell see him! " Grose's See also:

WORKS

works include The Antiquities of England and Wales (6 vols., 1773–1787) ; See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

Advice to the See also:

OFFICERS

Officers of the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

Army (1782), a See also:

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire in the manner of See also:

Swift's Directions to Servants; A See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

Guide to See also:

HEALTH

Health, Beauty, Riches and Honour (1783), a collection of advertisements of the See also:

period, with characteristic satiric See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface; A Classical See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary of the Vulgar See also:

TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

Tongue (1785) ; A See also:

TREATISE

Treatise on See also:

Ancient See also:

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

Armour and Weapons (1785–1789) ; Darrell's See also:

HISTORY

History of See also:

Dover (1786) ; Military Antiquities (2 vols., 1786–1788) ; A Provincial Glossary (1787); Rules for See also:

DRAWING

Drawing Caricatures (1788); The Antiquities of Scotland (2 vols., 1789–1791) ; Antiquities of Ireland (2 vols., 1791), edited and partly written by Ledwich. The Grumbler, sixteen humerous essays, appeared in 1791 after his See also:

DEATH

death; and in 1793 The Olio, a collection of essays, jests and small pieces of See also:

POETRY

poetry, highly characteristic of Grose, though certainly not all by him, was put together from his papers by his publisher, who was also his executor. A See also:

capital full-length portrait of Grose by N. See also:

Dance is in the first See also:

VOLUME

volume of the Antiquities of England and Wales, and another is among See also:

Kay's Portraits. A versified See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of him appeared in the See also:

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

Gentleman's See also:

MAGAZINE

Magazine, lxi. 66o. See Gentleman's Magazine, lxi. 498, 582 ; See also:

NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

Noble's Hist. of the College of Arms, p. 434; Notes and Queries, 1st See also:

ser., ix. 350; 3rd ser., i.

64, x. 28o-281; 5th ser., xii. 148; 6th ser., ii. 47, 257, 291; See also:

Hone, Every-See also:

day See also:

BOOK

Book, i. 655.

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