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 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
Charles Bannister
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Charles Bannister was an English actor, comedian and singer.
Charles Dibdin
…None so blind as those who won't see: and furthermore in the same year he wrote songs for The Trip to Portsmouth (words by G. A. Stevens), performed by Charles Bannister at the Haymarket, for which the overture and dances were written by Thomas Arne. Dibdin's most lasting opera, The Waterman, a comic opera, the music…
Charles Bannister Comedian
Charles Bannister as Polly Peachum