Francis Grose was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He produced A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popu
Francis Grose FSA, engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1787)
Various antiquarian books, including Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales
Alloway Kirk from Grose's The Antiquities of Scotland
Grave of Francis Grose and James Gandon
"Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in the second volume of Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland in 179
Souter Johnnie's Cottage, Kirkoswald.
The actor Ken O'Harrah plays Tam O'Shanter at Tamfest 2019