• Name: Busby, Thomas
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 26  December  1745
• Death Date: 28  May  1838
• Occupation: composer
• Occupation: author

Busby began his career as a musician and then proceeded to journalism. He was a parliamentary reporter for the London Courant and asssisted in editing the Mornign Post for a time. He was a member of the Wittinagemot Club, a society dedicated to the discussion of the commercial success of recently published literature, where he met Richard Phillips, Godwin's publisher. He received a doctorate in music from Cambridge in 1801 continued to write music and on music for many years.

Most of the contacts with Busby take place at Phillips's house making this identification very probable.

• DNB
• John Times, Club life of London with anecdotes of the clubs, coffee-houses and taverns of the metropolis during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1866)

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