Death
While undertaking a similar expedition to Ireland to collect material for yet another volume of antiquities, Grose died suddenly in Dublin after an apoplectical stroke, and was buried there on 18 May 1791 at Drumcondra cemetery. His nephew Daniel and a Dr. Edward Ledwich, who had already published a book on Irish antiquities, completed the final volume of Grose's Antiquities of Ireland in 1791.
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