William Linley

(1771-1835)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Linley, W. (William), 1771-1835 NRA: Linley William (1771-1835) composer and author DNB: Linley, William (1771-1835), composer and author LBT ID: WiLinle1835 VIAF ID: 65364524 LOC ID: n82159895	B/BAP: 1771-07-27 DIED: 1835-05-06
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English composer and theater director; he wrote the incidental music to William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare forgery Vortigern (1796).
REFERENCES TO William Linley: James Smith to Cyrus Redding, [March 1829] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V.