Luke Flintoft

{{Short description|English clergyman and composer}}

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| birth_date = 1680

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| death_date = 3 November 1727

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| nationality = English

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| known_for = double chant

| occupation = clergyman and composer

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Luke Flintoft (1680Edward John Hopkins (editor), The Temple church choral service, Edition 2, Published 1869. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=YRQDAAAAQAAJ&dq=Luke+Flintoft&pg=PA4 page 4]) - 3 Nov 1727), was an English clergyman and composer."Flintoft, Luke", Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Flintoft was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge,{{Cite web |title=Luke Flintoft |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/luke-flintoft |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Westminster Abbey |language=en}} and took the degree of BA at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1700. He was appointed priest-vicar at Lincoln Cathedral in 1704. He remained there until 1714. On 4 Dec. 1715 he was sworn as a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and is described in the 'Cheque Book' as 'from Worcester,’ which therefore was probably his birthplace. On 9 July 1719 he was appointed reader in Whitehall Chapel, and was subsequently made a minor canon of Westminster. He died on 3 Nov 1727, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.