can certainly, 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 three years after Leonard birth, of 1766, Of typhus throwing up. His mum was a widow for 56 years, Although she 'enjoyed an adequate annuity', As her grandson tells us later, Which came simply because her husband's membership of the Royal Society of Musicians. still, His father's early death must have had an impact on your beloved for Leonard, the actual son, Was apprenticed as a wood carver to a furniture maker from age 12 for seven years, which had been also sponsored by the Society.

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