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(arn), (1) Dr. Thomas Augustine, London, March 12, 1710—March 5, 1778; by secret nightly practice he learned the spinet and violin, his father wishing him to study law; 1736, m. Cecilia Young, a favourite singer of Handel’s; 1738, he was composer to the Drury Lane Th. and set Dalton’s adaptation of Milton’s “Comus”; in his masque “Alfred” (1740) is ‘‘Rule Britannia”; in Dublin (1742-44) he produced two operas, “ Britannia” and “ Eliza’, and a musical farce “Thomas and Sally”; 1745, composer to Vauxhall Gardens, London; set to music the songs in “As You Like It,” “‘Where the Bee Sucks,” in “The Tempest,” etc.; Mus. Doc. Oxon, 1759; he was the first to use female voices in oratorio-choruses (“Jus dith”); composed 2 oratorios, many masques, orch. overtures, vin.~ sonatas, organ-music, harpsichords on at as, glees, catches, canons, etc, (2) Michael, London, 1741—Jan. ra, 1786 (not 1806); natural son of above; conductor and dram. composer.