Person    | Male  Born 17/10/1768  Died 15/1/1833

Charles Dibdin

Categories: Music / songs, Theatre

Dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor. Employed Grimaldi at Sadler's Wells. Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin was known professionally as Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger. Born in Russell Court, Covent Garden, the illegitimate son of composer Charles Dibdin and actress Harriett Pitt. Buried at St James's Chapel, Pentonville.

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Charles Dibdin

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Charles Dibdin grave for dancing on

R. I. P. Charles Dibdin, 1768 - 1833 Henry Krokatsis 2010

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