Elizabeth Billington [née Weichsel]

(1765-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Billington, Elizabeth, 1768-1818 DNB: Billington [née Weichsel], Elizabeth (1765-1818), singer LBT ID: ElBilli1818 VIAF ID: 54583122 LOC ID: nr90023754	B/BAP: 1765-12-27 DIED: 1818-08-25
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English singer, the daughter of the oboist Carl Friedrich Weichsel; in 1783 she married James Billington, a Drury-lane musician. Lady Morgan claimed that Billington was the daughter of her own father, Robert Owenson.
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Billington [née Weichsel]: Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 28 Chapter IX Found 3: ¶ 60 ¶ 61 ¶ 62 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1812 Found 1: ¶ 39 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 6