Augustus Asplet Le Gros

One of the first pupils at Victoria College founded in 1852, he entered a solicitor's office, but abandoned his study of the law to work on the farm of his grandfather in Saint Peter.

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.