can certainly, which is why, 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, by 1766, Of typhus throwing up. His the mother was a widow for 56 years, Although she 'enjoyed an ample annuity', As her grandson tells us later, Which came because of her husband's membership of the Royal Society of Musicians. yet, His father's early death must have had an impact on everyone for Leonard, your only son, Was apprenticed as a wood carver to a furniture maker from the age of 12 for seven years, which in fact had been also sponsored by the Society.

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