Samuel Linley
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Samuel Linley (1760 – December 1778) was the second son of Thomas Linley the elder and Mary Johnson, one of seven musical siblings born to that couple.
Life
Samuel Linley was born when the family were living in Bath, Somerset, during 1760;Template:Sfnp he was baptised on 23 June that year.Template:Sfnp His first public performance was dancing the hornpipe for a production of King John in Bristol when he was six years old.Template:Sfnp He sang in his father's concerts during 1774 and 1775, and played the oboe, an instrument he was probably taught to play by William Herschel.Template:Sfnp In 1778 he became a midshipman on HMS Thunderer, aboard which he contracted the fever from which he died.Template:R The register of his burial is dated 6 December 1778.Template:Sfnp
Emma Hart, who went on to be Lady Hamilton, was employed by the Linley family as a maid servant;Template:R she nursed Linley during his illness but was distraught when he died, immediately leaving the house.Template:Sfnp Henry Angelo, one of the pallbearers, recalled in his memoirs that she said "no entreaties could prevail upon her to remain, not even a day."Template:Sfnp
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