Surrey, Aug

13, 1820; d. Sydenham, London, May 28, 1900. Civil engineer by profe ion, shared in lighthouse construction in Jamaica, Bermuda, and Chester; Secretary of Soc. of Arts 1850; as contributor to Smith’s Diet, of the Bible made two trips to Holy Land: active interest in Crystal Palace Concerts, 116 GROENBERG contributed analytical notes to programs for about 40 years; 1868 editor of Mac mill an's Magazine; 1873 began to edit Diet, of Music and Musicians; 1878 visited America with Stanley; 1882 organized and directed Royal Coll, of Mus.; though untrained in musical practice or theory, he became, by sheer dint of listening, an intelligent and sympathetic critic; his most original musical writing is contained in the article in his Diet., on Schubert whose works he rearranged by a theory of his own.