and William Abrams, violinist, all living at 73 Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. From 1781 to 1796, Harriett Abrams organised a yearly concert of Ancient Music, first at Tottenham street, then at Hanover Square, and for the last two years at the Opera House, Haymarket. Other than family members, Harriett Abrams employed leading singers and musicians: Joseph Haydn played the piano in 1792, 1794 and 1795. John Baptist Cramer, composer and pianist, was a soloist in 1782, and said that Theodosia Abrams "could pick out a wrong note on any instrument in a full orchestre". Harriett Abrams was also a composer of glees and ballads like Orphan's Prayer and Crazy Jane, sung by her sister, Theodosia. Theodosia Abrams abandoned a promising career upon her marriage; she was considered, with Margaret Kennedy, the leading female contralto of her time. Harriett Abrams' last song in 1803 was dedicated to Queen Charlotte, "with Her Majesty's most Gracious Permission". The Abrams siblings were friends with brothers and actors John Philip Kemble, Charles Kemble and Sarah Kemble. After Theodosia's marriage to Joseph Garrow, the family was involved with the St. John's Chapel, Torquay. In the late 1830s Joseph Garrow arranged Sacred Music for four voices, later printed in London with a dedication to John Sheepshanks, Archdeacon of Cornwall and former curate of St John's Chapel, Torquay, who formed the choir. It included music by Beethoven, Mozart, Weber and others, and also eight hymns tunes by Joseph Garrow and tunes or chants by Eliza Abrams, Theodosia Garrow, Theo Garrow (Theodosia and Joseph's daughter) and Harriett Fisher. Family On 6 August 1794, at St Maurice, Plympton, Theodosia Abrams married Captain Thomas Fisher (1773 – June 1810) of the Devonshire Militia. He was the son of the rector of Little Torrington, North Devon, from 1773 to 1803. They had two sons, Charles (b. 1806) and Harriett Theodosia, named after Theodosia Abrams' sister. Harriett Theodosia Fisher, baptised at Plympton, Devon on 4 November 1809, died from smallpox in Florence on 12 November 1848, just seven months after she moved there to live with her sister. She is buried with her family at English Cemetery, Florence. Strangely for the time, her maid, Elizabeth Shinner (1811–1852), is buried beside her. Theodosia Abrams secondly married a much younger man (by at least 19 years), Joseph Garrow, a magistrate in Torquay, on 17 March 1812 at St Margaret, Westminster. Joseph Garrow was born on