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Lieutenant-General Francis Grose (1758 – 8 May 1814) was a British soldier who commanded the New South Wales Corps. As Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales he governed the colony from 1792 until 1794, in which he established military rule, abolished civil courts, and made generous land-grants to his officers.
Francis Grose (before 11 June 1731 – 12 May 1791) was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He produced A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) and A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions (1787).
In 1789, he was promoted to captain in the New South Wales Corps, serving under Major Francis Grose. [6] After some time spent recruiting, he arrived in Sydney in October 1791. From November 1791 until March 1793 he served in command on Norfolk Island. Whilst there he collected botanical, geological and insect specimens and sent them to Banks.
The compiler Francis Grose gave the game away in his dictionary entry by explaining that it was "a man on horseback, with a woman behind him". [7] His "five legs on one side" description could be merely that the woman was riding side-saddle ).
A fourth company was raised from those Marines wishing to remain in New South Wales under Captain George Johnston, who had been Governor Arthur Phillip's aide-de-camp. [3] In December 1792, when Phillip returned to England for respite, Grose was left in charge. [4] Grose immediately abandoned Phillip's plans for governing the colony.
Written in a wrapper enclosing a Letter to Captain Grose, to be left with Mr. Cardonnel, Antiquarian. A Fragment - On Glenriddell's Fox breaking his chain. Lament for James Earl of Glencairn. Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry, 5th October, 1791. Lines to Sir John Whitefoord of Whitefoord, with a Poem to the Memory of Lord Glencairn.
Burns's poem was his self-avowed masterpiece Tam o'Shanter, [31] sent to Francis Grose on 1 December 1790; appearing in The Edinburgh Magazine in March 1791 and in Grose's second volume of his Antiquities a month later. [32] Tam o'Shanter wearing his bonnet and sitting astride his horse Meg
Francis Grose noted that when demolished in 1773 to make way for the mansion house, the old refectory walls were measured at 8 feet thick and the fireplace 12 feet wide. [ 2 ] Near the house was the loch or Lough (sic), the fish-pond of the friars.