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The careers of these children, and then of the parents of this 
second generation, may now be traced. 
GEORGE FREDERICK, so named after Handel, died an infant. 
ELIZABETH ANNE early showed a specially marked genius for 
music, which her father strongly fostered. Under his skilled and 
qualified and interested guidance her voice was most carefully 
cultivated, and so successfully, that when only twelve years of 
age, about 1766, the poor child was put forward as a public 
singer in the Rooms at Bath, and, too, with an immediate 
success. She married Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and the 
remainder of her story may be told with his. She died at the 
Bristol Hot Wells 28th June, 1792, and was buried in the 
cathedral at Wells. There is a portrait of her as St. Cecilia at 
Bowood by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; there is another portrait by 
Gainsborough at Delapré Abbey, and another with her sister 
Mary, by Gainsborough, in the Dulwich Gallery. 
Tuomas, the next son, became early a very skilled violinist, 
and performed in public when only eight years old. In 1773, 
when only seventeen, he became solo violinist at Bath, and 
promised to become great in his profession. He then went to 
Italy according to the fashion of the day to study under Tartini, 
or as one account says, under Nardini, who had himself been a 
pupil of Tartini. On his return he took up the leadership of the 
orchestra at Bath, his father being then in London. He was thus 
his father’s pride and hope, but alas, he was drowned when away 
on a visit by the upsetting of a boat, 5th August, 1778. There 
was published in 1778 :— 
A Monody (after the manner of Milton’s Lycidas) on the 
death of Mr. Linley who was drowned August the 5th, 1778, 
in a canal at Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire the seat of his 
grace the duke of Lancaster. 
This tells us from Milton :— 
He must not flote upon his watery bier 
Unwept, and welter in the parching wind, 
Without the meed of some melodious tear. 
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