Francis Hindes Groome

Francis Hindes Groome (1851–1902) was an English writer and editor, best known for his studies of the Romani people. The son of an archdeacon in Suffolk, he left Oxford without a degree, spent long periods living among Gypsies in England and on the Continent, learned Romani and married a Romani woman. His books include In Gypsy Tents (1880), Gypsy Folk-Tales (1899) and Two Suffolk Friends, a memoir of his father and the poet Edward FitzGerald. He also edited the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland and worked for many years on the staff of Chambers's Encyclopaedia and Chambers's Biographical Dictionary in Edinburgh.