Isaac Bickerstaffe
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Isaac John Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff was an Irish playwright and librettist.
Bickerstaff's first patron Lord Chesterfield who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
A scene from Love in a Village
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
Isaac Bickerstaffe
…he was still receiving his army half pay in 1808. "It seems he may have died soon after this." Long after Bickerstaffe's disappearance, his colleague Charles Dibdin was frequently accused of plagiarising his songs. Leucothoé (1756…
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