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BIGGS.
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1800; Six Sicilian airs for one voice, London,
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1805 ; Six Welsh airs adapted to English
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words, and harmonized for two, three and four
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voices, London, two sets ; Four sets of twelve
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Venetian airs for one voice, London, 1800 ;
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Six songs, written by Mrs. Opie, London, 1 800.
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Glees : Ah ! me, with that false one ; A poor
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soul sat sighing ; Bring the song ; Hark !
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what sound ; Here beneath this willow
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sleepeth ; Here's lawn as white as driven
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snow ; In my cot, tho' small's my store ;
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Lost is my quiet for ever ; Now ev'ning's
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come ; ! synge unto mie Roundelaie ;
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Under the greenwood tree ; Where feeds your
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flock ; Will you buy any tape ? Songs : The
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suicide ; Come, my lads, time posts away ;
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Fox and the crow ; Barbara Allan ; Where
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are you going my pretty maid ? Duets.
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Pianoforte : Twenty-eight Waltzes ; Rondos
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and marches.
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Biggs, Rev. L. C 46-L-21
Biggs, Rev. L. C, author of "English
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Hymnology " (a series of articles reprinted
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from the "Monthly Packet.")
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Biggs, Walter Lyle 46-L-24
Biggs, Walter Lyle, organist, composer,
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and conductor, born at Netting Hill, London,
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September 16, 1857. Received his first musi-
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cal instruction from his mother's uncle, the
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Rev. S. Lillycrop {q.v.), afterwards studied
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organ and harmony under G. F. Geaussent.
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Was organist of All Saints', Child's Hill,
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Kilburn, 1877-81, and in 1882, elected, after
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competition, to St. Peter le Bailey, Oxford,
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since when he has founded a musical society,
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given oratorio services in the Church, and
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concerts in the Old Town Hall. He con-
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ducted the Holy Trinity Musical Society,
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1887-8 ; and in 1895 founded ihe East Oxford
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Musical Society. He has also given organ
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recitals in Wadham, Worcester, and Trinity
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College Chapels.
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Works. — Sacred cantata, Elihu, Op. 3
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(produced, Wadham College Chapel, July,
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1891) ; Psalms 147-8-9 and 150, Op. 5, 6, 7, 8,
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for soli, chorus and orchestra; Epithalamium
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(Spenser), Op. 4, for soprano and baritone
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soli, men's chorus, and small orchestra ;
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Church compositions, Op. 2. Fairy opera,
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Marie (libretto by Mrs. Linsley, produced,
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Oxford Institute, February, 1896); Set of
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four songs. Op. 9 ; Short organ pieces, Op. 1.
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Of these only the Cantata and Church com-
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positions are yet published.
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Bilby, Thomas 46-L-53
Bilby, Thomas, musician, was born at
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Southampton, April 18, 1794. He served for
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some time in the army, but subsequently
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entered the teaching profession. For twenty-
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eight years he was parish clerk of St. Mary's,
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Islington. He died at Islington, London,
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September 24, 1872. He is only known as
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the composer of the hymn-tune called " Joy-
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ful," which is usually sung to his own words
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" Here we suffer grief and pain."
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Billington, Elizabeth 46-L-63
Billington, Elizabeth, born Weichsel,

BILTON.
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soprano vocalist, born in Soho, London, about
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1768. She studied under her father, who was
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a German, and Schroeter, from an early age.
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In 1782 she sang at Oxford, and in October,
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1783 she was married to James Billington, a
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double-bass player of Drury Lane Theatre.
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She appeared on the stage at Dublin in 178.3,
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and sang in different parts of Ireland till 1786.
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She sang in "Love in a Village" at London,
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February 13, 1786. Afterwards, she went to
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Paris, but in 1787 she returned to London.
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Owing, in part, to anonymous attacks on her
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character, she went to Italy with her husband
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in 1794, and appeared in various cities with
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much success, In 1799 she married a French-
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man named Felissent (Billington having died
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in 1794), but left him, owing to his ill-treat-
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ment, and returned to London in 1801, when
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she appeared at Covent Garden, King's Thea-
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tre, etc. In 1811 she retired, and in 1817 she
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was reconciled to her husband. She died at
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St. Artein, August 25, 1818. Full details of her
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career will be found in Hogarth's " IMemoirs
career will be found in Hogarth's " Memoirs
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of the Musical Drama," and in " Memoirs of
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Mrs. Billington from her birth ; containing a
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a variety of matter, ludicrous, theatrical,
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musical, and with copies of several original
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letters written by Mrs. Billington to her
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mother," London, 1792. A suppressed book,
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to which she replied in " An Answer to the
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Memoirs of Mrs. Billington," 1792.
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Billington, Thomas 46-R-32
Billington, Thomas, pianist, harpist,
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and composer, was born at Exeter in 1754.
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He lived in London as a teacher of the piano
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and harp, but died at Tunis in 1832.
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Works. — Music to Gray's Elegies, Op. 8 '.
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Pope's Eloisa to Abelard ; Prior's Garland ;
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Petrarch's Laura; The Children in the Wood,
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Morton ; Four sets of twelve canzonets for
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two voices, London, 1784-90; Six songs for
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voice and pianoforte ; Shenstone's Pastorals,
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consisting of 24 ballads ; Music to Young's
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Night Thoughts, 1790 ; Music to Pope's Elegy
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to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady ;
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Numerous glees ; Songs ; Scotch airs, etc.,
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harmonized, London [1785] ; Six sonatas for
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harpsichord or pianoforte. Op. 5 ; Three trios
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for a violin, tenor, and 'cello. Op. 7 [1780] .
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Bilton, J. Manuel 46-R-49
Bilton, J. Manuel, bandmaster and
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composer, born at Plymouth, October 8, 1862,
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son of a master-at-arms in the Royal Navy.
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Educated at the Royal Naval School, Green-
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wich, and joining the school band, his playing
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the baritone at a concert of the band at the
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Crystal Palace, 1875, attracted the attention
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of J. Lawson, bandmaster of the Royal Ar-
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tillery Brass Band, who took him into that
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band. He met with a friend in Colonel Hime,
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who helped him in every way. In 1886 he
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was appointed Trumpet-Major of a Brigade of
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Artillery at Limerick, and studied under
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Stanislaus Elliott, and in 1887 entered Kueller
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Hall. After the death of Charles Cousins


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