BUSBY, Thomas. Add month of birth, . In the summer of 1769 he sang at Vauxhall at a salary of ten guineas a week, and about 1786 was elected organist of St. Mary's, Newington. The oratorio called ‘The Prophecy
’ had been written much earlier than 1799; it was a setting of Pope's ‘Messiah.
’ Line 15 of article, for next read had previously. ‘Joanna
’ was produced at Covent Garden in January 1800. To the list of melodramas...
