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Thomas Linley. His connection with Bath. 
By EMANUEL GREEN, F.S.A. 
(Read December 3rd, 1902.) 
Thomas Linley and his family were for a time so prominently 
2 as yssociated with Bath as skilled musicians, and from other public 
circumstances which will be alluded to they attracted also so 
much notice, such a wide interest outside Bath, that some local 
record of them should be available. Of what has been already 
$2 id about them much is by no means exact. ‘There has been 
too often a :— 
Mis quoting, mis dating, 
Mis placing, mis stating, 
At war with truth, reason, and fact. 
_ Thomas Linley, says the “ Dictionary of National Biography,” 
vas born at Wells in 1732, the son of a carpenter. Being sent 
© carpentering work at Badminton, the seat of the duke of. 
ufort, he derived so much pleasure from listening to the 
ing and a of Thomas Chilcot, the organist of Bath 
T his account just varies from another auth tells that he was: 
he son of a carpenter and was originally intended to follow his 
er’s business. Being however one day at work at Badminton, 
‘seat of the duke of Beaufort, he was overheard to sing by 
. Chilcot, at that time organist at Bath, who was so much 
ighted with his voice that he prevailed with his father to allow 
to quit the trade and study music.* 
* ‘Musical Biography,” Vol. 2, p. 210. 
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