George Grove
Writer on music and lexicographerApprenticed as a civil engineer, 1836; worked as a civil engineer, 1839–50. Secretary of the Society of Arts, 1850–2. Secretary to the Crystal Palace Company, 1852–73; a director, 1873–8. Originated the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1865. Edited Macmillan’s Magazine, (1878–89). Director of the Royal College of Music, 1882–94. Knighted, 1883.
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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 19