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daughter of Mr. Linley, manager of Drury Lane Theatre. 
Her death “is a loss almost irreparable to the musical world. 
Those who remember her performance at the oratorios will join 
in this opinion. The union of a sweet voice, correct judgment, 
extensive compass, and above all beauty of mind and person, 
distinguished the much lamented maid, and her character will 
_ be dear while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.”* 
Another account says she died of a brain fever at her father’s 
house at Bath, 15th September, 1784.¢ Again the date was the 
5th, and further, as her father had at this time no residence at Bath, 
her death must have been at the house of her grandfather in 
Belmont. She was buried at Walcot 11th September. In the 
same grave, in 1792, were buried the grandfather and grand- 
mother, the three in one, Maria being there first in order of date. 
The grave was No. 26, Row 15 north. Maria in 1784 was 
No. 722, and in 1792 William was No. 2469, and his wife 
No. 2493, showing presumably the burials in those eight years. 
Not a trace or mark can now be found to show the spot, and this 
has been the case for many years. There is a crayon portrait at 
Dulwich said to be Maria, by Sir Thos. Lawrence. _ 
_ Some pretty poems on Maria help the story and confirm the 
date of death. The first appeared in the Bath Chronicle of the 
gth September, and corrects the above-noted date error in the 
‘same issue. ‘The title runs : — 
ON THE DeatH oF tHe LOVELY AND MucH LAMENTED 
* * * SEPTEMBER 5, 1784. 
If beauty, wit, and innocence could charm 
And set aside the monarch’s stern decree 
These dear Maria had unnerv’d his arm 
Or turned averse his fatal shaft from thee. 
* Voll 54 ye pavlrs + ** Dict. Nat. Biog.” 
