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Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (1770 — 1817) was a English singer, musician and piano-forte player.

She was born in England about the year 1770, being the daughter of Mr. Weichael, a German. At the age of fourteen she made her first aooearence as s singer, at Oxford, and two years afterwards married Mr. Billington, whom she acoompained to Dublin. Here she made her debut in the opera of Orpheus and Euridice.

On returning to London, she appeared at Covent Garden with great success, and rapidly acuired a high reputation. She afterwards visited then continent to avail herself of the instructions of the masters of the art in Paris and Italy.

In 1796 she appeared at Venice and at Rome, receiving every where the londest expression of applause.

In 1801 she returned to the London stage and antonished the whole world by her Mandane, a perfomance that has never since been equalled in English opera. In 1817 she quitted England for ever, and died after a short illness at an estate she had purchased in the Venetian territories.