Thomas John Dibdin

(1771-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841 NRA: Dibdin, Thomas John (1771-1841) actor and dramatist DNB: Dibdin, Thomas John (1771-1841), playwright and actor LBT ID: ThDibdi1841 VIAF ID: 69673002 LOC ID: n82154725	B/BAP: 1771-03-21 DIED: 1841-09-16
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Actor and playwright said to have composed nearly two thousand songs; in 1815 he became manager at Drury-Lane while Byron was on the steering committee.
REFERENCES TO Thomas John Dibdin: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt. Written by Himself” in Monthly Magazine NS 7 (April 1810) 243-48 Found 1: ¶ Lord Byron to William Sotheby, 15 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 “To Correspondents” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (January 1818) title-page verso Found 1: ¶ 23 Dibdin, Thomas, 1771-1841, “Burlesque” in Literary Gazette 2 (16 May 1818) 315 Verse 2: p. p. Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 June 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 104 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 23 Life of Byron: 1821 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 1: ¶ 101 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 1: ¶ 64 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 13 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 1: ¶ 35 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. 5: On Life Found 1: ¶ 23