1771, Don­cas­ter, York­shire, Eng­land.

Don­cas­ter, York­shire, Eng­land.

Blind from birth, Linley stu­died with Ed­ward Mill­er, or­ganist at Don­cas­ter Pari­sh Church, and later became organist of Pentonville Cha­pel, Lon­don. He mar­ried a well-to-do blind la­dy, and around 1797 they pur­chased Bland’s mu­sic bus­i­ness, which was un­suc­cess­ful. He moved to Amer­i­ca for a short while, re­turn­ing to Don­cas­ter in 1799.

1. Pentonville