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See also:DIBDIN, See also:CHARLES (1745—1814) , See also:British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and See also:song-writer, the son of a See also:parish clerk, was See also:born at See also:Southampton on or before the 4th of See also:March 1745, and was the youngest of a See also:family of eighteen. His parents designing him for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, he was sent to See also:Winchester; but his love of See also:music See also:early diverted his thoughts from the clerical profession. After receiving some instruction from the organist of Winchester See also:cathedral, where he was a chorister from 1756 to 1759, he went to See also:London at the See also:age of fifteen. Here he was placed in a music warehouse in Cheapside, but he soon abandoned this employment to become a singing actor at Covent See also:Garden. On the 21st of May 1762 his first See also:work, an operetta entitled The Shepherd's Artifice, with words and music by himself, was produced at this See also:theatre. Other See also:works followed, his reputation being firmly established by the music to the See also:play of The Padlock, produced at See also:Drury See also:Lane under See also:Garrick's management in 1768, the composer himself taking the See also:part of Mungo with conspicuous success. He continued for some years to be connected with Drury Lane, both as composer and as actor, and produced during this See also:period two of his best known works, The Waterman (1774) and The Quaker (1775). A See also:quarrel with Garrick led to the termination of his engagement. In The Comic See also:Mirror he ridiculed prominent contemporary figures through the See also:medium of a puppet show. In 1782 he became jointmanager of the Royal See also:circus, afterwards known as the See also:Surrey theatre. In three years he lost this position owing to a quarrel with his partner. His See also:opera See also:Liberty See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, containing the successful songs " Jock Ratlin," " The Highmettled Racer," and " The Bells of See also:Aberdovey," was produced at Drury Lane theatre on the 8th of See also:February 1785. In 1788 he sailed for the See also:East Indies, but the See also:vessel having put in to Torbay in stress of See also:weather, he changed his mind and returned to London. In a musical variety entertainment called The Oddities, he succeeded in winning marked popularity with a number of songs that included "'Twas in the See also:good See also:ship `Rover'," "Saturday See also:Night at See also:Sea," "I sailed from the See also:Downs in the ` See also:Nancy,' " and the immortal " Tom See also:Bowling," written on the See also:death of his eldest See also:brother, See also:Captain See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Dibdin, at whose invitation he had planned his visit to See also:India. A See also:series of monodramatic entertainments which he gave at his theatre, Sans Souci, in See also:Leicester Square, brought his songs, music and recitations more prominently into See also:notice, and permanently established his fame as a lyric poet. It was at these entertainments that he first introduced many of those sea-songs which so powerfully influenced the See also:national spirit. The words breathe the See also:simple See also:loyalty and dauntless courage that are the See also:cardinal virtues of the British sailor, and the music was appropriate and naturally melodious. Their effect in stimulating and ennobling the spirit of the See also:navy during the See also:war with See also:France was so marked as to See also:call for See also:special See also:acknowledgment. In 1803 Dibdin was rewarded by See also:government with a See also:pension of £200 a See also:year, of which he was only for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time deprived under the ad-ministration of See also:Lord See also:Grenville. During this period he opened a music See also:shop in the Strand, but the venture was a failure. Dibdin died of See also:paralysis in London on the 25th of See also:July 1814. Besides his Musical Tour through See also:England (1788), his Professional See also:Life, an autobiography published in 1803, a See also:History of the See also:Stage (1795), and several smaller works, he wrote upwards of 1400 songs and about See also:thirty dramatic pieces. He also wrote the following novels: The See also:Devil (1785); Hannah See also:Hewitt (1792); The Younger Brother (1793). An edition of his songs by G. See also:Hogarth (1843) contains a memoir of his life. His two sons, Charles and Thomas See also:John Dibdin (q.v.), whose works are often confused with those of their See also:father, were also popular dramatists in their See also:day.
End of Article: DIBDIN, CHARLES (1745—1814)
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