The British Musical Biography

[E] Bingley, Rev. William, writer and clergy-
man, was born at Doncaster in 1774. He
studied at Cambridge, where he graduated M. A.
He died at London, March 11, 1823. Author
of " Musical Biography, or Memoirs of the
lives and writings of the most eminent musi-
cal composers and writers who have flourished
in the different countries of Europe during the
last three centuries," London, 1814, 2 vols.;
2nd edition, London, 1834, 2 vols. Animal
Biography, 1802, 3 vols., etc. He also added
" Sixty of the most admired Welsh airs, col-
lected by W. Bingley, the basses and varia-
tions arranged for the pf. by W. Russell,
jun.," London, 1810.

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