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. | |