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Elizabeth, and his other music interests to Osias and William. Some 
of these manuscripts are now in the British Museum. To 
Osias he left his property at Didmarton, and failing issue after him to 
William. The picture of Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Tickell he left to 
R. B. Sheridan. This is now in the Dulwich Gallery. One hundred 
pounds each went to his other daughters, and the residue with his 
interest in Drury Lane Theatre to be equally divided after his 
wife’s death, but the theatre interest to be kept in or sold only to 
one of the family as long as possible. To his wife he left an 
annuity of £300a year. There is a portrait of him by Gains- 
borough in the Dulwich Gallery. The wife, of whom there are 
two portraits at Dulwich College, whose life business in London 
had been the care of the theatre wardrobe, survived him, and 
died in the forenoon of the 18th January, 1820, aged about 92 
_ ‘Says one account,* but another account tells more clearly that :— 
“Mrs. Linley, relict of the celebrated Mr. Linley, died yesterday 
morning (18th January) at her house in Southampton Street, in 
- the g3rd year of her age. She was the mother of the first Mrs. 
Sheridan.”t These immediate accounts are clear enough, the 
second of them appearing especially exact. But here comes again 
a very curious but not the final descrepancy. A tablet, erected 
may be some time after her death, but erected by her own 
_ children, and yet still on the north wall within St. Paul’s, Covent 
Garden, tells that she was aged 91. _ It records that :— 
Near this place are deposited the remains of Mary Linley 
widow of Thomas Linley esq. late of this parish who 
departed this life on the 18th January 1820 aged g1. This 
tablet erected by her sons Osias Thurston and William. 
This is on the west side of the wall space between the second 
and third windows counting from the west. The floor is boarded 
over so that any slab if there cannot be seen. 
* Times, 19th January, col. I. 
+ Morning Post, 19th January, p. 3., col. 3. 
