we all know, explanation, That the Leonard Abington who came to Ringstead is the one listed in A Musical Directory for the Year 1794 as his father had died only some many years after Leonard birth, while in 1766, Of typhus vomiting. His mothers was a widow for 56 years, Although she 'enjoyed an ample annuity', As her grandson tells us later, Which came because her husband's membership of the Royal Society of Musicians. all the same, His father's early death must have had an impact on relatives for Leonard, really son, Was apprenticed as a wood carver to a furniture maker from the age of 12 for seven years, which had been also sponsored by the Society.

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