GROVE, SIR GEORGE (1820-1900), English writer on music, was born at Clapham on Aug. 13, 182o. He was articled to a civil engineer, and worked for two years in a factory near Glasgow. In 1841 and 1845 he was employed in the West Indies, erecting lighthouses in Jamaica and Bermuda. In 1849 he became secretary to the Society of Arts, and in 1852 to the Crystal Palace. In this capacity he threw all the weight of his influence into the task of promoting the best music of all schools in con nection with the weekly and daily concerts at Sydenham, which had a long and honourable career under the direction of Mr. (afterwards Sir) August Manns. Without Sir George Grove that eminent conductor would hardly have succeeded in doing what he did to encourage young composers and to educate the British public in music. Grove's analyses of the Beethoven symphonies, and the other works presented at the concerts, set the pattern of what such things should be; and it was as a result of these, and of the fact that he was editor of Macmillan's Magazine from 1868 to 1883, that the scheme of his famous Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published from 1878 to 1889 (and edition, edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland, 19o4-1907; 3rd ed., ed. H. C. Colles, 1927), was conceived and executed. When the Royal College of Music was founded in 1882 he was appointed its first director, receiving the honour of knighthood. He died at Sydenham on May 28, i 900.