Mary Johnson Linley

(1729-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Linley, Thomas, 1733-1795 DNB: Linley, Thomas (1733–1795), impresario and composer LBT ID: MaLinle1820 LOC ID: n82225780	B/BAP: 1729 DIED: 1820-01-18
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (January 1820) 94; DNB ["Thomas Linley"]; LOC Name Authority File
In 1852 she married the musician Thomas Linley and was the mother of a family of musicians including Elizabeth, first wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
REFERENCES TO Mary Johnson Linley: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch X. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 34