George Grove

Sir George Grove CB (13 August 1820 – 28 May 1900) was an English writer on music known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He contributed to the English literature on the subject including a concordance in 1854 and about a thousand pages of Sir William Smith's 1863 Bible Dictionary. Grove was trained as a civil engineer and successful in that profession but his love of music drew him into musical administration.