• Name: Dibdin,
• Gender: Male
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This identification is uncertain. There are only three instances of Dibdin in total and four possible candidates (see DNB). It seems very likely that the three references are not all to the same person. The first reference in 1796, an adv at John Stoddart's, might refer to Charles Dibdin (bap. 1745, d. 1814), actor, composer and writer, or to either of his sons, Charles Isaac Mungo (1768-1833), theatre manager and writer, and Thomas John (1771-1841), playwright and actor, or perhaps to their bibliographer cousin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Charles senior died in 1814 so the two references in Sept 1815 must be to another one of the family. These refer to a letter and a reply - perhaps to Charles Isaac Mungo as theatre manager. The letter (not in the Abingr MS collection) would help identify the second and third appearances of Dibdin, although the family Godwin refers to in 1796 would still be difficult to identify with certainty.

There is also the entry for 23 November 1790, 'Venice Preserved, Dibdin's Divert.', which has, correctly, not been coded as a person as it refers to Charles Dibdin's A Divertisement, a collection of his songs performed at Covent Garden (although he usually performed his own songs this was at smaller venues than Covent Garden and the DNB notes that he assisted the theatre in production and scoring, but not that he sung them himself).

• DNB

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