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Francis was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London. He was baptised on 11 June 1731 in the parish of St Peter-le-Poer. His father was a wealthy Swiss jeweller, settled at Richmond, Surrey.
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Superstitions are surprisingly enduring. From dodging black cats to crossing ones fingers while making a wish to an aversion to staff meetings on Friday the thirteenth, it is remarkable how many superstitions remain intacteven in this age of rationalism and swift scientific advancement. First published in 1787 as part of the disparate collection A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, Francis Groses Superstitions represents years of careful data collection and fieldwork and presents a full catalog of ways the supernatural might be expected to interfere in ones life. Organized thematically into chapters like Witches, Sorcerers, and Witchcraft, Things Lucky and Unlucky, Second Sight, Omens, and Superstitious Methods of Obtaining a Knowledge of Future Events, Superstitions offers a systematic overview of the superstitious beliefs of the day as well as those held by earlier generations. Here, Groses work is reproduced under its original headings and supplemented by an informative introduction by Oxford English Dictionary editor John Simpson, setting the superstitions in proper historical and cultural context. The resulting collection is a delightfully quirky guide to traditional sayings and beliefs, many archaic but some still surprisingly common today.
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Francis was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London. He was baptised on 11 June 1731 in the parish of St Peter-le-Poer. His father was a wealthy Swiss jeweller, settled at Richmond, Surrey.
Francis probably received a classical education.
Grose early showed an interest in heraldry and antiquities, and his father procured him a position in the Heralds’ College. In 1763 being then Richmond Herald, he sold his tabard, and shortly afterwards became adjutant and paymaster of the Hampshire militia, where, as he himself humorously observed, the only account-books he kept were his right and left pockets, into the one of which he received, and from the other of which he paid. This carelessness exposed him to serious financial difficulties; and after a vain attempt to repair them by accepting a captaincy in the Surrey militia, the fortune left him by his father being squandered, he began to turn to account his excellent education and his powers as a draughtsman.
In 1757 he had been elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1773 he began to publish his Antiquities of England and Wales, a work which brought him money as well as fame. This, with its supplementary parts relating to the Channel Islands, was not completed till 1787. In 1789 he set out on an antiquarian tour through Scotland, and in the course of this journey met Burns, who composed in his honour the famous song beginning “Kenye aught o’ Captain Grose, ” and in that other poem, still more famous, “Hear, 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 Ireland and doing for that country what he had already done for Great Britain. About a month after his arrival, while in Dublin, he died in an apoplectic fit at the dinner-table of a friend, in 1791.
Grose’s works include: The Antiquities of England and Wales; Advice to the Officers of the British Army (1782), a satire in the manner of Swift’s Directions to Servants; A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches and Honour (1783), a collection of advertisements of the period, with characteristic satiric preface; A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785); A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons (1785-1789); Darrell’s History of Dover (1786); Military Antiquities (2 vols. , 1786-1788); A Provincial Glossary (1787); Rules for Drawing Caricatures (1788); The Antiquities of Scotland; Antiquities of Ireland (2 vols. , 1791), edited and partly written by Ledwich. The Grumbler, sixteen humerous essays, appeared in 1791 after his death; and in 1793 The Olio, a collection of essays, jests and small pieces of 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.
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He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Grose was a sort of antiquarian Falstaff, at least he possessed in a striking degree the knight’s physical peculiarities; but he was a man of true honour and charity, a valuable friend, “overlooking little faults and seeking out greater virtues, ” and an inimitable boon companion. His humour, his varied knowledge and his good nature were all eminently calculated to make him a favourite in society.