He received his medical training at St Mary's Hospital, where he was Meadows memorial scholar in the practice of gynaecology and midwifery for 1893. Linington practised for many years as a surgical specialist at Folkestone, living latterly at 1 Radnor Park Avenue. He was medical officer to Bruce Porter House, Folkestone, and to the Star and Garter home at Sandgate. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC with the rank of captain. Linington retired about 1937 and settled at Walnut Trees, Sissinghurst, Kent. After his wife's death on 24 April 1943 he moved in 1945 to The Acorn, Swain Road, St Michael's, Tenterden, Kent, where he died on 18 May 1948, aged 76. He presented a number of atlases of eighteenth-century anatomical engravings to the College library in 1945, and after his death his daughter presented to the College his writing desk and collection of tincture jars.