Augustus Asplet Le Gros
Augustus Asplet Le Gros or Augustus Aspley Le Gros (14 April 1840,
of the Royal Court of Jersey.Biography
A.A. Le Gros was raised in the parish of
In the same year he was one of the founders of the Société Jersiaise, of which he became the first secretary. He began work on a dictionary, which remained unfinished, of Jèrriais, which served as the basis for the Glossaire du Patois Jersiais edited by the Société Jersiaise in 1924.
His poems, in a rather lyrical style, signed A.A.L.G., in Jèrriais, in French and in English, appeared in the papers and almanacs of Jersey and Guernsey.
For eight years Le Gros published a small annual review of poetry in Jèrriais and Guernésiais. He also published two small volumes of poetry in English, Poems for Home and Fireside (London, 1863) and Poems (London, 1868), besides a history of Mont Orgueil in Jersey : Mont Orgueil Castle: Its History and Ruins.
In 1875, the electors of the island made him a Jurat. He died at the age of 37 in 1877.
Some of his texts have been set to music in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Bibliography
- La Grève de Lecq, Roger Jean Lebarbenchon, 1988 ISBN 2-905385-13-8(in French)
- Bulletîn d’Quart d’An, L'Assembliée d'Jèrriais, Jersey (in Jèrriais)
- Original Songs in the Jersey Language, Jersey, 1988
External links
- Textes d’A.A. Le Gros (in Jèrriais)