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. He had been fascinated by the Romani people since school, and in 1876 had married a Romani lady. Groome wrote extensively on many subjects, was an editor for Chamber's Encyclopaedia and Chamber's Dictionary of Biography, and was responsible for the six-volume Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland.