Mary Linley (4 January 1758 – 27 July 1787) was one of seven musical siblings born to Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson. She sang publicly until she married the playwright Richard Tickell in 1780.

Biography

Linley was born in

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, England, on 4 January 1758. In 1771, she appeared at the Three Choirs Musical Festival at

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, and in 1772 at Gloucester, with her sister

Elizabeth Ann Linley Elizabeth Ann Sheridan ( Linley; September 1754 – 28 June 1792) was an 18th-century English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty. She was the subject of several paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, who was a family friend, Joshu ...

. On Elizabeth Ann's retirement, Mary Linley filled her place in oratorio and concert rooms. On 25 July 1780, she married Richard Tickell, pamphleteer and commissioner of stamps. She died at Clifton on 27 July 1787, leaving two sons and a daughter, and was buried in Wells Cathedral.

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