{{Short description|2nd son of Thomas Linley the Elder (1760–1778)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[file:Gainsborough, Thomas - Samuel Linley - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|280px|''Samuel Linley'', in his midshipman's uniform, by Thomas Gainsborough, who painted this image, according to family tradition, in 48 minutes flat.{{sfnp|Waterfield|1988|p=88|ps=none}}]] '''Samuel Linley''' (1760 – December 1778) was the second son of Thomas Linley the elder and Mary Johnson, one of seven musical siblings born to that couple.
==Life== Samuel Linley was born when the family were living in Bath, Somerset, during 1760;{{sfnp|Waterfield|1988|p=87|ps=none}} he was baptised on 23 June that year.{{sfnp|Black|1911|p=10|ps=none}} His first public performance was dancing the hornpipe for a production of ''King John'' in Bristol when he was six years old.{{sfnp|Waterfield|1988|p=87|ps=none}} He sang in his father's concerts during 1774 and 1775, and played the oboe, an instrument he was probably taught to play by William Herschel.{{sfnp|Waterfield|1988|p=87|ps=none}} In 1778 he became a midshipman on HMS ''Thunderer'', aboard which he contracted the fever from which he died.{{r|Dulwich}} The register of his burial is dated 6 December 1778.{{sfnp|Black|1911|p=147|ps=none}}
Emma Hart, who went on to be Lady Hamilton, was employed by the Linley family as a maidservant;{{r|ODNB}} she nursed Linley during his illness but was distraught when he died, immediately leaving the house.{{sfnp|Waterfield|1988|p=87|ps=none}} Henry Angelo, one of the pallbearers, recalled in his memoirs that she said "no entreaties could prevail upon her to remain, not even a day."{{sfnp|Angelo|1830|pp=240–241|ps=none}}
==References== '''Citations''' {{reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="Dulwich"> {{cite web |url=http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/301-350/samuel-linley/ |title=Samuel Linley |accessdate=26 July 2017 |publisher=Dulwich Picture Gallery |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124403/https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/301-350/samuel-linley/ |archivedate=9 February 2019 |url-status=live |mode=cs2}} </ref>
<ref name="ODNB"> {{cite ODNB |last=Pocock |first=Tom |title=Hamilton , Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815) |year=2004 |edition=online, October 2007 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12063 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12063 |accessdate=26 July 2017 |url-access=subscription }} </ref>
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{{refbegin}} '''Bibliography''' *{{citation |last=Angelo |first=Henry |title=Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends |year=1830 |volume=2 |publisher=Colburn and Bentley}} *{{citation |last=Black |first=Clementina |title=The Linleys of Bath |year=1911 |publisher=Martin Secker}} *{{citation |last=Waterfield |first=Giles |title=A Nest of Nightingales |year=1988 |publisher=Dulwich Picture Gallery}} {{refend}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Linley, Samuel}} Category:English classical oboists Category:Male oboists Category:1760 births Category:1778 deaths Samuel Category:People from Bath, Somerset
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