Francis Hindes Groome
Francis Hindes Groome , 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 fathers rectory of Monk Soham onAugust 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 Gttingen, and then foryears 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.
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