Career
Flintoft took the degree of Bachelor at Queens" College, Cambridge, in 1700, and was appointed priest-vicar at Lincoln Cathedral in 1704. He remained there until 1714. On 9 July 1719 he was appointed reader in Whitehall Chapel, and was subsequently made a minor canon of Westminster.
He died on 3 November 1727, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.
His claim to a place in musical history depends upon the question whether a certain ‘double chant’ in G minor, attributed to him, is or is not the first specimen of the kind in existence. The arguments for and against this will be found in ‘Notes and Queries,’ 3rd ser. x.
206, xi. 267, 391, and 445. Flintoft"s Chant, described as "perhaps the most beautiful chant ever composed".