Between 1759 and 1768 he directed the annual performances of Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, where he was organist.
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Of his own oratorios, mostly written in the 1760s, Paradise Lost (1760) was the greatest success (with words by Benjamin Stillingfleet); three later ones (Nabal, Rebecca, and Gideon) were largely reworkings of Handel's music.
After his father's death his mother Martha married John Christopher Smith, who was Handel's amanuensis.
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