He joined the Royal Society of Musicians in June 1757, when he was living in Queen's Street, Golden Square in London.
He set fellow Cape Club member Robert Fergusson's words to a cantata, Ode on the Rivers of Scotland (1772, now lost).
He wrote pantomime theatre music for David Garrick's The Hermit (at Drury Lane in 1766), and songs for the Vauxhall pleasure gardens.
[3] Number 3, originally the overture to the burletta Midas, presented at Covent Garden in February 1764, became well known.
[1] There is a modern recording of Number 5, the first British four-movement symphony to follow the form established by Stamitz, founder of the Mannheim School.