Francis Hindes Groome (1851 - 1902), miscellaneous writer, son of a
clergyman, wrote for various encyclopaedias, etc. He was a student of the
gipsies 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).
