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borough : and a crayon by Sir Thos. Lawrence. She left a 
daughter, who became the mother of John Arthur Roebuck.* 
In error, from similarity of name, this Richard Tickell is 
sometimes supposed to have been the proprietor of a once 
advertised Ethereal Anodyne Spirit, but the owner of this was 
William Tickell, a surgeon and chemist who lived in Queen 
Square, Bath. 
THuRSTON, the first of the name, died in 1763, and was buried 
in St. James's church, 13th May. 
SAMUEL by the time he was 19 displayed great musical genius 
on the oboe, but having the offer, he abandoned music as a pro- 
fession, entered the navy as a midshipman, and sailed on a short 
cruise in the Thunderer, 74 guns, Capt. Walsingham. On his 
return he obtained leave and visited his family in London, where 
he was seized with malignant fever and died. It is curious that 
had he survived and joined his ship death would have still come 
to him as the Thunderer sailing again, never returned, was never 
heard of more. There is a portrait of him by Gainsborough in 
the Dulwich Gallery. 
WiLttAM Cary died in 1762, and was buried in St. James’s 
gth October. 
Maria continued a musical career, and it seems strange that 
she has received no separate biographical notice. She witnessed 
a marriage in Bath Abbey church 31st October, 1782. She died 
unmarried, aged only 21. The Bath Chronicle gth September, 
1784, says:—tMonday, died after a few days’ illness Miss 
Maria Linley, second daughter of Mr. Linley, one of the 
patentees of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. But as the 
Chronicle was published on thursday the 9th, monday would 
be the 6th, which is not correct, as she died on the 5th. 
The Gentleman’s Magazine, giving the date 5th September, 
says :—Died at Bath of an inflammatory fever Miss Linley, 
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