GREVILLE, CHARLES CAVENDISH FULKE (1794-1865).—­Political annalist, ed. at Eton and Oxf., was a page to George III., sec. to Earl Bathurst, and afterwards held the sinecure office of Sec. of Jamaica.  In 1821 he became Clerk to the Privy Council, an office which brought him into close contact with the leaders of both political parties, and gave him unusual opportunities of becoming acquainted with all that was passing behind the scenes.  The information as to men and events thus acquired he fully utilised in his Journal of the Reigns of George IV., William IV., and Queen Victoria, which, ed. by Henry Reeve, of the Edinburgh Review, was pub. in three series between 1874 and 1887.  The Journal covers the period, from 1820-60, and constitutes an invaluable contribution to the history of the time.

GRIFFIN, BARTHOLOMEW? (fl. 1596).—­Poet, of whom almost nothing is known, pub. in 1596 a collection of 62 sonnets under the title of Fidessa, of which some are excellent.

GRIFFIN, GERALD (1803-1840).—­Dramatist, novelist, and poet, s. of a tradesman, b. and ed. in Limerick, he went in 1823 to London, where most of his literary work was produced.  In 1838 he returned to Ireland and, dividing his property among his brothers, devoted himself to a religious life by joining the Teaching Order of the Christian Brothers.  Two years thereafter he d., worn out by self-inflicted austerities.  His chief novel, The Collegians, was adapted by Boucicault as The Colleen Bawn, and among his dramas is Gisippus.  His novels depict southern Irish life.

GRIMOALD, NICHOLAS (1519-1562).—­Poet, was at Camb. and Oxf., and was chaplain to Bishop Ridley.  He contributed to Tottel’s Songs and Sonnettes (1557), wrote two dramas in Latin, Archi-propheta and Christus Redivivus, and made translations.

GROOME, FRANCIS HINDES (1851-1902).—­Miscellaneous writer, s. of a clergyman, wrote for various encyclopaedias, etc.  He was a student of the gipsies and their language, and pub. In Gypsy Tents (1880), Gypsy Folk Tales (1899), and an ed. of Borrow’s Lavengro (1900).  Other works were A Short Border History (1887), Kriegspiel (1896), a novel, and Two Suffolk Friends (his f. and Edward Fitzgerald, q.v.).

GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899).—­Was a minister of the English Presbyterian Church.  He wrote Lives of various Puritan divines, ed. their works, and also issued ed., with Lives, of the poems of Michael Bruce (q.v.) and Robert Fergusson (q.v.).  But his chief service to literature was his reprints, with notes, of rare Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, including Fuller’s Worthies Library, 39 vols. (1868-76), Occasional Issues of Unique and Very Rare Books, 38 vols. 1875-81, Huth Library, 33 vols. (1886), Spenser’s Works, 10 vols., Daniel’s Works, etc.