Charles Dibdin

(1745-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814 NRA: Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814) Dramatist and Songwriter DNB: Dibdin, Charles (bap. 1745, d. 1814), actor, composer, and writer LBT ID: ChDibdi1814 VIAF ID: 22406778 LOC ID: n83020562	B/BAP: 1745-03-04 DIED: 1814-07-25
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Popular dramatist and song-writer (his nautical songs were particularly admired); author of History of the Stage (1795).
REFERENCES TO Charles Dibdin: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 10: Naval Services Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 3: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 13 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 26 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 11 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 1