Charles Bannister
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Charles Bannister was an English actor, comedian and singer.
Charles Bannister Comedian
Charles Bannister as Polly Peachum
Charles Dibdin
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Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them hi
Charles Bannister
…from 1770 to 1774, was his mistress. Bannister built on his reputation as a singer at Ranelagh Gardens not least through the early successful operas of Charles Dibdin, with which he became specially identified. In 1768 he was in Damon and Phillida, and The Padlock. In 1774 he was the original Tom Tug in Dibdin's…
Charles Dibdin, 1799, by Thomas Phillips (died 1845), oil on canvas
Manuscript in Dibdin's hand of "Mourn Ye Damsels of the Court"
Celtic cross memorial to Dibdin, erected by public subscription in 1889, after his original tomb collapsed, in St Martin's Gardens, Camden Town