MISCELLANEOUS DEATHS

DEATHS IN THE UK & IRELAND

DEATHS IN SCOTLAND

DEATHS IN ENGLAND & WALES.
This is a list of dates of death, compiled from various sources (ie. family sources, death certificates, death notices, obituaries, probate records, burials and monumental inscriptions), for 'Dibdens' who died in England and Wales. Many of these can be used to supplement information found in the GRO death indexes. Depending on the source of the information, the place of death or usual residence of the deceased (sometimes both), parents, spouse or other family members may have been recorded.

NAME	DATE of DEATH	PLACE of DEATH	ABODE	SOURCE
ALFRED DIBDEN	15 Jun 1957	Ashurst Hospital, Ashurst, Hants		Burial
ALICE DIBDEN	3 May 1892		New Inn, Brockweir, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
ALICE LILLIAN DIBDIN	24 Jun 1915		Great Grimsby, Lincs	Family
ANDREW DIBDEN	2 Jun 1858	Newbridge, Eling		Death Certificate
ANN DIBDIN	9 Sep 1828	Myddelton Sq, Sadler's Wells, London		Death Notice
ANN DIBDEN	18 Jan 1903		Yew Tree Cottage, St. Braviels, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
ANNIE RAWLINSON DIBDIN	27 Oct 1926	33 Woburn Sq, W.C.	33 Woburn Sq, Middlesex	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
ANNIE DIBDEN	16 Oct 1933		Penn Cottage, Bramshaw, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
ANNIE DIBDIN	10 Nov 1933		Great Grimsby, Lincs	Family
AUBREY DIBDIN	20 Apr 1958		Field House, Corfe Castle, Dorset	Death Notice
BELINDA DIBDEN	30 May 1939		1 Mount Pleasant Rd, Ebbw Vale, Monmouth	National Probate Calendar
BEN ISAAC DIBDEN	15 Jan 1938	Royal Infirmary, Gloucester	27 Knowles Rd, Gloucester	National Probate Calendar
CAROLINE DIBDIN	8 Aug 1897	62, Torrington Square	62, Torrington Square	Death Notice
CHARLES DIBDIN	25 Jul 1814	Arlington St, Camden Town, London	Arlington St, Camden Town, London	Charles Dibdin
CHARLES DIBDIN	15 Jan 1833	12 Garden Row, London Road (Kings Bench Prison)	12 Garden Row, London Road (Kings Bench Prison)	Death Notice
CHARLES PITT DIBDIN	21 Feb 1866	Sheffield, Yorks	Sheffield, Yorks	National Probate Calendar
CHARLES WILLIAM DIBDIN	25 Nov 1888	14 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead	14 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead	Death Notice
CHARLES DIBDIN	7 Jun 1910	33 Woburn Sq, W.C.	33 Woburn Sq, Middlesex	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
CHARLES WILLIAM DIBDIN	29 Mar 1912		9 Seaview, Gillingham, Kent	National Probate Calendar
CHARLES DIBDEN	1 Apr 1914		1 Ferney Villas, Blackwater, Hants	National Probate Calendar
CHARLES ELI DIBDEN	21 Jun 1928	Newbridge Cross-roads, New Forest, Hants	Barrow Hill, Copythorne, Hants	Death Notice
CHARLES DIBDIN	22 Sep 1935	Jasmin Kingsdown, Deal, Kent	41 Elliot Rd, Hendon, Middlesex	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH DIBDEN	20 Jan 1908	Morningside, Sudworth Rd, New Brighton	Morningside, Sudworth Rd, New Brighton	Death Notice
DONALD FREDERICK DIBDEN	24 Nov 1913	Haslar Hospital	48 Prince George St, Portsea, Hants	National Probate Calendar
DOROTHY ELLEN DIBDIN	30 Sep 1978		Wembley, London	Death Notice
DUDLEY HARDWICKE DIBDIN	14 Jun 1942		45 Barn-rise, Wembley Park, Middlesex	National Probate Calendar
EDWARD JOHN DIBDIN	18 Apr 1946	Twyford, Berks		Death Notice
EDWARD RIMBAULT DIBDIN	28 Oct 1941		Ashton Villa, Tarvin, Cheshire	National Probate Calendar
EDWARD ALFRED GEORGE DIBDEN	8 May 1955	Wells & District Hospital, Wells	20 Portway, Wells	Death Certificate
EDITH DIBDEN	1 Apr 1921		Quay House, Brockweir, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
EDWIN DIBDIN	15 Sep 1941		Triangle Stores, Brockweir, Hewelsfield, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
ELI HENRY DIBDIN	3 Sep 1925		1 Mount Pleasant Rd, Ebbw Vale, Monmouth	National Probate Calendar
ELIZABETH KATE DIBDEN	10 Jan 1916			Monumental Inscription Southampton Hill Lane Cemetery
ELLEN DIBDEN	9 Sep 1906		'Fernbank', Brockweir, Hewelsfield, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
ELLEN DIBDEN	19 May 1941	Rowhill Farm, Bramshaw	Cove Cottage, Dazel, Bramshaw, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
ELIZA DIBDEN	31 Jan 1915		3 Model Cottages, Newtown, Berks	National Probate Calendar
ELSIE EMMELINE DIBDEN	29 Dec 1942	Westminster Hospital,London	18 Dunbar Rd, Milton, Portsmouth	National Probate Calendar
ELSIE ELIZABETH DIBDEN	20 Jun 1972	17 Mountbatten Rd, Totton, Hants		Burial
EMILY LOIS DIBDIN	11 Jul 1932		Bramshaw, Hants	Burial National Probate Calendar
EMILY DIBDIN	14 Mar 1938	307, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, SE19	307 Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
EMILY MARIA DIBDEN	4 Mar 1942	Porchlanes House, East Chiltington, Sussex	114 Mailing St, Lewes, Sussex	National Probate Calendar
ERNEST GEORGE DIBDEN	20 Jul 1998		7 Springvale Court. Water Lane, Totton, Southampton	Death Notice
ERNEST FRED DIBDEN	20 May 1953	'Waitemata', Waters Lane, Totton, Hants		Burial
EUGENIE EMILIE DIBDIN	18 Nov 1925	55 Redington Rd, Hampstead, N.W.	55 Redington Rd, Hampstead, Middlesex	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
FANNY DIBDIN	19 Apr 1890		33 Woburn Sq	National Probate Calendar
FREDERICK ALFRED DIBDIN	5 May 1915			Family
FREDERICK ALFRED DIBDIN	21 May 1929		110 Gladstone Rd, Sparkbrook, Birmingham	National Probate Calendar
FREDERICK DIBDEN	30 Jun 1938		143 Malvern Rd, Bill'ham-on-Tees, Durham	National Probate Calendar
GEORGE THOMAS FASE DIBDIN	20 Jan 1911	Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey		Death Notice
GEORGE MICHAEL DIBDIN	1 Aug 1912	Cliftonville, Margate, Kent	Elmside, 5 Richmond Rd, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
HENRY DIBDEN	25 Dec 1911	107 Pound St, Shirley, Hants	6 Howards Grove, Shirley, Hants	National Probate Calendar
HENRY DIBDEN	25 Jun 1941		The Bakery, Canada Common, West Wellow, Hants	National Probate Calendar
HERBERT WILLIAM DIBDEN	4 Feb 1930		16 Darlington Rd, Plymouth, Devon	National Probate Calendar
HUMPHREY AMBROSE DIBDEN	27 Mar 1940		Cove Cottage, Dazel, Bramshaw, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
JAMES BISHOP DIBDEN	18 Jan 1924		Shorthill, Lyburn, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
JAMES PHILIP DIBDEN	7 Sep 1929	Royal Infirmary, Bristol	Quay House, Brockweir, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
JANE DIBDIN	23 Sep 1906		7 Albion Place, Southampton, Hants	National Probate Calendar
JOHN DIBDEN	3 Jun 1880	Nomansland, Wilts	Nomansland, Wilts	National Probate Calendar
JOHN DIBDEN	23 Jul 1888	St. Braviels, Gloucs	St. Braviels, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
JOSEPH DIBDEN	11 Apr 1909		Nomansland, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
JOSIAH DIBDEN	27 Oct 1918		Canada, West Wellow, Hants	National Probate Calendar
JOY DIBDEN	31 Dec 2002			Obituary
JULIA DIBDIN	17 Oct 1937		110 Gladstone Rd, sparkbrook, Birmingham	National Probate Calendar
KENNETH GEORGE DIBDEN	30 Mar 1975	17 Mountbatten Rd, Totton, Hants		Burial
LEWIS GEORGE DIBDIN	26 Nov 1965		Morcombelake, Dorset	Death Notice
LEWIS TONNA DIBDIN	12 Jun 1938	Nobles, Dormansland, Surrey	Nobles, Dormansland, Surrey	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
LILLIAN RUTH DIBDEN	27 Jan 1963	Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton		Burial
LILY FLORENCE DIBDEN	27 Nov 1956	20 Portway, Wells		Death Certificate
LOUISA DIBDEN	19 Nov 1933		6 Maurice Rd, Portsmouth, Hants	National Probate Calendar
LUCY DIBDEN	16 Jan 1965	12 Yeomans Way, Totton, Hants		Burial
MARIAN DIBDIN	17 Aug 1928		31 Idminston Rd, West Norwood, Surrey	National Probate Calendar
MARIANNE AUBREY DIBDIN	14/15? Jun 1927		Nobles, Dormansland, Surrey	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
MARIANNE STEWART DIBDIN	14 Oct 1955		Ilminster, formerly of Dormansland and Aldbourne	Death Notice
MARY MARIA DIBDIN	16 Aug 1916		Great Grimsby, Lincs	Family
MARY ANN DIBDEN	15 Aug 1920		Seaview Rd, Gillingham, Kent	National Probate Calendar
MARY ANN DIBDIN	5 Mar 1924		Shepton Mallet, Somerset	National Probate Calendar
MARY ELIZABETH DIBDIN	1 Sep 1934		Ilex House, Ray Drive, Bridge Rd, Maidenhead, Berks	National Probate Calendar
MARY DIBDEN	2 Sep 1939		Blenheim Cottage, West Wellow, Hants	National Probate Calendar
NATHANIEL DIBDEN	20 Feb 1914		Little Home Cottage, Hewelsfield, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
MARY ELIZABETH DIBDEN	7 Jan 1943	Southmead Hospital, Bristol	26 Broadway Rd, Bishopston, Bristol	National Probate Calendar
PHILIP DIBDEN	3 Mar 1883	Brockweir, Gloucs	Brockweir, Hewelsfield, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
PHILIP DIBDEN	6 Dec 1891			National Probate Calendar
RAYMOND JACK DIBDEN	9 Apr 2000		5 Allcroft Rd, Reading, Berks	Death Notice Obituary
RICHARD DIBDEN	18 Feb 1895		Bramshaw, Wilts	National Probate Calendar
RICHARD JOHN DIBDEN	19 Feb 1902		Sprout house, Brockweir, Hewelsfield, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
ROBERT WILLIAM DIBDIN	23 Jul 1887	62 Torrington Square, London	62 Torrington Square, London	Death Notice
ROBERT WILLIAM DIBDIN	19 Nov 1933	55 Redington Rd, Hampstead	23 Red Lion Sq, Middlesex & 55 Redington Rd, Hampstead, Middlesex	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
ROSA ANNIE FRANCIS DIBDIN	8 Feb 1928		Grimsby, Lincs	Family
SAMUEL DIBDIN	17 Jul 1886	Nomansland	Nomansland, Wilts	National Probate Calendar
SOPHIA DIBDIN	5 Apr 1876	Bryanston St	37 Bryanston St, Portman Sq	National Probate Calendar
STEPHEN DIBDIN	26 Sep 1910	24 Cathcart Hill Mansions, Dartmouth Park	24 Cathcart Hill, Dartmouth Park, London	Death Notice National Probate Calendar
SUSANNAH HARRIOTT DIBDIN	27 Mar 1859	62 Torrington Square, London (brother's residence)		Death Notice
SYBIL MAY DIBDIN	2 Feb 1975	Hopsital		Death Notice
THOMAS DIBDIN	16 Sep 1841	Middelton Place, Pentonville, London	Middelton Place, Pentonville, London	Death Notice
THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN	18 Nov 1847	3 Park Rd, Regents Park, London		Death Notice
THOMAS DIBDEN	22 Mar 1875	Lydney, Gloucs	Hewelsfield & Lydney, Gloucs	National Probate Calendar
THOMAS DIBDEN	27 Jul 1895		52 Medway Rd, New Brompton, Kent	National Probate Calendar
THOMAS DIBDEN	5 Jun 1932		Furzley, Bramshaw, Hants	National Probate Calendar
THOMAS DIBDIN	16 Aug 1954		153, New Haven Terrace, Grimsby, Lincs	Family
URIAH DIBDEN	12 Oct 1914		Furzley, Bramshaw, Lyndhurst, Hants	National Probate Calendar
WALTER FRANK DIBDEN	2 Mar 1917			Monumental Inscription Southampton Hill Lane Cemetery
WILLIAM JAMES DIBDIN	3 Jul 1882		Great Grimsby, Lincs	Family
WILLIAM JOSEPH DIBDIN	9 Jun 1925	31 Idmiston Road, West Norwood	31 Idmiston Road, West Norwood	Death Notice
WILLIAM GEORGE DIBDEN	19 Sep 1928	County Hospital, Ryde, I.O.Wight	Clifton Villa, Princes Rd, Freshwater, I.O.Wight	National Probate Calendar
WILLIAM DIBDEN	5 Feb 1936		West Wellow Common, Romsey, Hants	National Probate Calendar

• Related Notice:
  • Source: The Times, Monday 28 Apr 1958, pg.12
    Obituary

• Related notice:
  • Source: The Times, Saturday 19 Jan 1833, pg.3
    Coroner's Inquest: On Thursday a coroner's inquest was held in the lobby of the King's Bench-prison, on the body of Mr. Charles Dibdin, aged 64 (formerly proprietor of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and author of several well-known dramatic pieces), who died on the 15th instant at his lodgings, No.12, Garden-row, London-road, and within the rules of that prison. The jury, consisting of the prisoners within the walls, proceeded with the coroner, Mr. Le Piper, to take a view of the body, and afterwards returned to the lobby of the prison, when the surgeon deposed that he had been in the habit of attending the deceased, and that in his opinion he had died from a decay of nature. A Juror asked whether the deceased had been in want of necessaries of life? The question being answered in the negative, the jury, under the direction of the coroner, returned a verdict in conformity with the opinion delivered by the medical witnesses.

• Related notices:
  • Source: The Times, Thursday 9 Jun 1910, pg.1
    On the 7th June, 33, Woburn-square, W.C., Charles Dibdin, Secretary Royal National Life-boat Institution, aged 60. Funeral Friday, 10th inst. Service at Christ Church, Woburn-square, 10.15am. Interment at Woking (Brookwood); train from Waterloo 11.45.
  • Source: The Times, Thursday 9 Jun 1910, pg.1
    The funeral of Mr. Charles Dibdin will be at Brookwood tomorrow, the train leaving Waterloo at 11.45. The service will be at Christ Church, Woburn-square, 10.15.
  • Source: The Times, Friday 10 Jun 1910, pg.1
    On the 7th June, at 33, Woburn-square, W.C., Mr. Charles Dibdin, Secretary Royal National Life-boat Institution, aged 60. Funeral today. Service at Christ Church, Woburn-square 10.15am. Interment at Woking (Brookwood). Train from Necropolis Station, Westminster Bridge-road.
  • Source: The Times, Monday 11 Jul 1910, pg.15 (Will)
    Mr. Charles Dibdin of Woburn-square, for 27 years Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, an Alderman of the Holborn Borough Council, who died on June 7, aged 60, great-grandson of Charles Dibdin, the writer of sea-songs, left estate of the gross value of £10,642, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £10,253.

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  • Source: The Times, Monday 22 Apr 1946, pg.1
    On April 18, 1946, at Twyford. Berks, Edward John, dearly beloved husband of Florence, and youngest and last surviving son of the late Sir Robert and Lady Dibdin of Hampstead, and Kingsdown, Deal. Funeral, Wednesday, 12.30 at St. Mary-the-Virgin, Twyford, Berks. Train, Paddington, 11.20.
  • Tuesday 30 Apr 1946, pg.6
    A memorial to Mr. Edward John Dibdin, solicitor, will be held in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, on Thursday, March 2, at noon.

• Related notice:
  • Source: The Times, Monday 9 May 1938, pg.19 (Will)
    Miss Emily Dibdin of Norwood, who died on March 14, aged 83, left £3,323, with net personalty £3,246. She left: £50 each to the Church Missionary Society, South America Missionary Society, and Colonial and Continental Missionary Society.

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  • Source: The Times, Friday 20 Nov 1925, pg.1
    On the 18th Nov., suddenly, at 55 Redington-road, Hampstead, N.W., Eugenie Emilie, the beloved wife of Sir Robert W. Dibdin. Funeral service at St. Luke’s Church, Kidderpore-avenue, Hampstead, to-morrow (Saturday) at 11.15a.m. Funeral at Hampstead Cemetery. Kindly accept this (the only) intimation.

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  • Source: The Times, Tuesday 14 Jun 1938, pg.1
    On Sunday, June 12, 1938, at Nobles, Dormansland, Sir Lewis Tonna Dibdin, D.C.L., sometime Dean of the Arches, aged 85. Funeral (for family and neighbours) Dormansland Church, 10am, tomorrow (Wednseday). Memorial service Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, 4.30pm on the same day. Will anyone wishing to send flowers, please address to Dormans Station.
  • Source: The Times, Monday 13 Jun 1938, pg.16
    Obituary
  • Source: The Times, Thursday 16 Jun 1938, pg.18
    Obituary by Lord Daryngton
  • Source: The Times, Thursday 16 Jun 1938, pg.10
    Memorial Service: The Archbishop of Canterbury was represented by the Rev. A. Sargent at a memorial service for Sir Lewis Dibdin, K.C., which was held yesterday in Lincoln’s Inn Chapel. The Rev. R.V.G. Tasker, Chaplain, officiated, assisted by the Rev. F.H. Bartlam. Family present at the memorial were: Mr. L.G. Dibin, Mr. R.J. Dibdin, Mr. Aubrey Dibdin, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. H.S. Pinder, Mr. Humphrey Paget, Mr. Charles Greenwood, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. B. Bussell, Mrs. Harold E, Greenwood, Mr. D.H. Dibdin, Mr. E.J. Dibdin, Miss Dibdin (niece), Mr. E. Rimbault Dibdin.
    (A list of others attending the service also appears in the report)
    The funeral of Sir Lewis Dibdin took place yesterday at St. John’s, Dormansland. The Rev. F.H. Bartlam officiated. Family present at the funeral were: Mr. L.G. Dibdin (son), Mr. And Mrs. R.J. Dibdin and Mr. And Mrs. Aubrey Dibdin (sons and daughters-in-law), Miss Dibdin (daughter), Lieutenant-Colonel Pinder.
    (A list of others attending the service also appears in the report)
  • Source: The Times, Friday 17 Jun 1938, pg.9
    Primate’s Tribute
  • Source: The Times, Thu 6 Jun 1939, pg.1
    Memorial Bell at Dormansland Church

• Related notice:
  • Source: The Times, Wednesday 2 Mar 1966, pg.14 (Will)
    Lewis George Dibdin, of Mortcombelake, Dorset, barrister (duty paid £13,560) £45,005.

• Related notice:
  • Source: The Times, Saturday 23 Jul 1927, pg.15 (Will)
    Dame Marianne Aubrey Dibdin, of Nobles, Dormansland, Surrey, who died on June 15, wife of Sir Lewis Tonna Dibdin, left estate (unsettled) of the gross value of £939, with net personalty £866.

• Related notices:
  • Source: The Times, Friday 10 Nov 1933, pg.14
    Sir Robert William Dibdin, a former President of the Law Society, is stated to be lying gravely ill at his Hampstead home, complications having followed an attack of bronchitis.
  • Source: The Times, Monday 20 Nov 1933, pg.17
    Obituary
  • Source: The Times, Wednesday 22 Nov 1933, pg.17
    A memorial service for Sir Robert William Dibdin will be held at Christ Church, Woburn Square, tomorrow at 2.30pm.
  • Source: The Times, Friday 24 Nov 1933, pg.17
    The funeral service for Sir Robert William Dibdin took place yesterday at St. Luke’s Church, N.W.3, and was taken by the Rev. G.T.Manley, assisted by the Rev. Dr. J.D. Mullins. The immediate mourners were: Mr. And Mrs. Charles Dibdin and Mr. And Mrs. Dudley Dibdin (sons and daughters-in-law), Mr E.J. Dibdin (son), Miss Dibdin (daughter), the Rev. Dr. F.W. Bussell and Mrs. Bussell, Mr. And Mrs. T. Aubertin, Colonel and Mrs. A.J. Vernon-Betts and Mr. And Mrs. H.E. Greenwoood (sons-in-law and daughters), Miss Emily Dibdin (sister), Mr. Thomas Peter Aubertin, Mr. Charles Fortescue Greenwood and Mr. Richard John Vernon-Betts (grandsons), Miss V.C. Lawe (niece), and also representing Mrs. Lawe (sister), Mr. R.J. Dibdin and Mr. A. Dibdin (nephews) and Mr. L.G. Dibdin, representing also Sir Lewis Dibdin.
    The burial took place at Hampstead Cemetery.
    (A list of others attending the service also appears in the report)
    A memorial service for Sir Robert Dibdin was held at Chrict Church, Woburn Square, yesterday. The Archdeacon of London and the Rev. T.H. Dixon were the officiating clergy. Members of the family, the Mayor of Holborn, the Town Clerk, and many Aldermen and Councillors of Holborn attended.
    (A list of others attending the service also appears in the report)
  • Source: The Times, Friday 23 Mar 1934, pg.16 (Will)
    Dibdin – Sir Robert William J.P. (85), of Hampstead and of Red Lion Square WC. Solicitor. (net personalty £4,726). Gross value £28,264.

OBITUARIES

SOURCE: The Times
Monday 28 Apr 1958, pg.12
AUBREY DIBDIN - Mr. Aubrey Dibdin, C.I.E., whose death at the age of 66 was announced briefly in The Times last week, had the rare advantage of entering the India Office for administative work after some years spent in the sub-continent. The son of a distinguished Dean of the Arches he was born on March 4, 1892, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Christ Church, Oxford. In the 1914-18 War he was in India as an officer of The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) from October 1914 to November 1919. This background was of value to him when he joined the staff of the India Office in 1920. In the following year he was made Assistant Principal and Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State. His abilities brought him to principalship in 1924. He served with the Indian delegations to the Labour Conference, Geneva, for no fewer that seven annual sessions. This experience was an appropriate prelude to his secretaryship of the Royal Commission on Labour in India in 1929-31 under the chairmanship of the late Mr. Whitley, former Speaker at the House of Commons. From 1934 to 1936 Dibdin was Deputy Clerk to the Council of the Secretary of State. Following the passage of India Act of 1935 he became Assistant Secretary of the Reforms Department of the office.
In the Spring of 1938 he was transferred in the same capacity to the Public and Judicial Department and this was followed in 1941 by his transfer to the Economic Overseas Department. He was made C.I.E. in 1943, and made Assistant Secretary of the separate Burma Office in 1945. After the transfer of power in 1947 he was for a short period, prior to his retirement in the following year, at the Commonwealth Relations Office. In all this varied work he brought to bear sound judgement and general administrative ability. He married in 1921 Sybil May Luckham and two sons and two daughters were born to them.

SOURCE: The Bournemouth Daily Echo online: Family Announcements
JOY DIBDEN - On December 31st 2002 peacefully, Joy, aged 88, the beloved wife of the late James Dibden, loving mother of Rodney & Rachel and to Ruth & Peter, dearest grandmother of Glenn, Andrew, Ingrid, Robert & Tracey and a much loved great grandmother. Funeral service at Cranleigh Community Church, Southbourne on Monday January 13th at 12.00 noon, interment following at Boscombe Cemetery. Family flowers only please, but if desired donations for "Counties Evangelistic Work" may be sent to The Brian Wilton funeral home, 156 Tuckton Road, Bournemouth.

SOURCE: The Times
Monday 13 Jun 1938, pg.16
SIR LEWIS DIBDIN - Sir Lewis Dibdin, D.C.L., for 31 years Dean of the Arches, died at his home, Nobles, Dormansland, Surrey, yesterday. He was best known as one of the small group of able lawyers who give special attention to ecclesiastical matters, but up to the time of his appointment as Dean of the Arches he had also a large general practice in the Chancery Division. As Dean of the Court of Arches from 1903 to 1934 he was called upon to give decisions on more than one important case, while as Auditor of the Chancery Court of York, Master of the Faculties, and an Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioner his influence in Church affairs was far-reaching. He was a man of sound judgement, content to stand in the old ways of ecclesiastical procedure, an earnest defender of the Church as established by law in these kingdoms, and a conserver of its temporalities.
Lewis Tonna Dibdin was the third son of the Rev. R.W. Dibdin, of St. Giles's, London, and brother of the late Sir R.W. Dibdin, ex-president of the Law Society, and was born on July 19, 1852. He went to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was afterwards elected an honorary Fellow, graduating in 1874 as a senior Optime, and then read for the Bar at Linclon's Inn. He became K.C. in 1901. He gradually acquired a large Chancery practice, and from 1895 to 1903 was official counsel to the Attorney-General in charity matters. Early in his career Dibdin became known as an ecclesiastical lawyer, and appeared in all the leading ecclesiastical suits. He was, for instance, offered briefs by all the parties to the litigation which arose out of the confirmation of Dr. Gore's election to the Bishopric of Worcester, being finally claimed by the Crown. He was also leading counsel in the memorable Lambeth hearings on Incense and Reservation. Almost from its establishment, in Archbishiop Benson's time, Sir Lewis took an important part in the deliberations of the Canterbury House of Laymen, and for some years was its vice-chairman. He resigned from this body only because he thought that his judicial office made his withdrawal advisable. He had been Chancellor of the dioceses of Rochester, Exeter and Durham.
The Royal Commission on Church Discipline was appointed in 1904. For some time before ritual troubles had seriously disturbed the peace of the Church, and the clamour against what was described as the lawlessness of some of the clergy was so urgent that the Government was compelled to institute an inquiry into the real state of affairs. Sir Lewis Dibdin was appointed a member of the Commission, and took a prominent part in drawing up the report.
In 1903, the year he was knighted, Sir Lewis was appointed Dean of the Arches in succession to Sir Arthur Charles, and it was in this capacity that it became his duty to deliver judgement in what was known as the Deceased Wife's Sister Case. He decided that Canon Thompson, at the time vicar of Eaton, Norwich, was not entitled to repel from Holy Communion Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, who had been married in Canada, the latter being the sister of her husband's first wife. Canon Thompson obtained a rule nisi calling upon Dibdin to show cause why a writ should not issue, but the Divisional Court discharged the rule, and when the case came before the Court of Appeal the Court unanimously upheld that decision. The validity of this judgement was then made the subject of an appeal to the House of Lords, but it was again upheld. Thus the soundness of Dibdin's judgement was affirmed. Naturally such a result caused no small degree of anxiety among a number of Churchmen, but the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Davidson) promptly pointed out, in reply to a letter from the Bishop of London, that the judgement and Act on which it was founded left the Church's law unchanged. The Deceased Wife's Sister Act, 1907, had expressly legalized and validated such a union, and although it was still ecclesiastically irregular, those who contracted it could not be called "open and notorious evil livers."
The Royal Commission on Divorce, which Sir Lewis was a member, sat at frequent intervals between 1909 and 1912. In the end the members found themselves in two sections. While the majority report strongly advocated a wide extension of the conditions of divorce in this country, the minority report sought to restrict it within the limits already fixed by the law, except that it urged that it should be amended to procure equality of treatment of the sexes. The minority report was signed by Sir Lewis Dibdin, the Archbishop of York (Dr. C.G Lang), and the late Sir William Anson.
In 1914, with the assitance of the late Sir Alfred Kempe and the late Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Sir Lewis Dibdin, at the request of the Archbishops, drew up a report on the issue of faculties for securing the protection of ancient churches and preventing undue alterations in ancient fabrics. The report was of real value and had as a result the formation in most dioceses of committees which included experts whose advice could be taken before alterations in fabrics were allowed.
Upon the vexed question of the Revised Prayer-book Dibdin's attitude was a moderate one. Probably he would have preferred to leave the Prayer-book as it was, but he realized that the neglect of the Bishops to enforce, and of the clergy to obey, the law of strict uniformity had brought about a serious situation. He therefore supported the new Book, though always maintaining the right of parliament to accept or reject it.
Sir Lewis resigned from his many offices, including that of Vicar-General of the Povince of Canterbury, which he had held since 1925, in 1934 on account of age. Many legal and other works were written or edited by him; among them may be mentioned "Church Courts," 1881; "The City Livery companies," 1886; "Monasticism in England," 1890; "The English Church Law and divorce" (with the late Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1912; and in 1932 a valuable volume on Establishment in England," a collection of essays written across many years and containing nmuch information and learning upon the relations of Church and State not easily accessible to the general reader interested in such matters.
In 1881 Sir Lewis married Marianne Aubrey, daughter of the late Rev. H.S. Pinder. She died in 1927. They had three sons and two daughters.

SOURCE: The Times
Thursday 16 Jun 1938, pg.18
SIR LEWIS DIBDIN - Lord Daryngton writes:
May I be permitted to add to the excellent notice in The Times on Monday in reference to Sir Lewis Dibdin’s work, especially as First Church Estates Commissioner and Chairman of Committees of Queen Anne’s Bounty.
He succeeded the sixth Lord Stanhope as First Church Estates Commissioner in 1905, and held the post until his resignation in December 1930. Those 25 years saw great developments. In 1907 the first attempt establish a pension scheme for incumbents, otherwise than by charge on the living, was made. In 1908 the first scheme of augmentation of poor benefices established a minimum income of £150 a year, and was extended in 1909-10 to raise the minimum to £200. Then came the War, and the system of War-time bonuses to the clergy to meet the rising cost of living, and, after the War, in 1921-27, the entirely new augmentation schemes, which have benefited three-quarters of the benefices in England and made a minimum income of £300 possible. This represents only a fraction of his work
On the establishment of the Church Assembly in 1920 Dibdin played a prominent part. He was largely himself responsible for a series of measures relating to the Commissioners and to various reforms in disciple, patronage, and in episcopal endowments. I can testify to the keen personal interest he took in all those schemes for the benefit of the Church. He was that rare phenomenon, lawyer, judge, administrator, all in one, and long will be remembered. I should like to add that he was at all times a personal friend if Archbishop Lord Davidson, who realized his great ability and administrative power.

SOURCE: The Times
Friday 17 Jun 1938, pg.9
SIR LEWIS DIBDIN - Primate’s Tribute to Late Sir Lewis Dibdin.
At the monthly General Court of the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty yesterday, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who presided, alluded to the death of Sir Lewis Dibdin, and said it would not be right for the occasion to pass without some reference to the debt which the Governors owed to him. Sir Lewis Dibdin became a Governor as long ago as 1902, and was appointed Chairman in 1915; and from that time onwards, until his resignation in 1927, took an active interest in the affairs of the Bounty. It was under him that the fruitful cooperation between the Bounty and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners was established. In a reference to Sir Lewis Dibdin’s resignation in 1927 the Archbishop thought that it might have been caused by the burden of the tithe administration following the passing of the Tithe Act, 1925. He had a most rare and deep sympathy with the clergy of the Church of England, and a constant and pious loyalty to that Church, as well as being one of its most faithful sons.

SOURCE: The Pharmaceutical Journal Online
Vol 264, No 7102, p948: Date 24 Jun 2000
On April 9, RAYMOND JACK DIBDEN, MRPharmS,of 5 Allcroft Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5HJ. Mr Dibden registered in 1939.

SOURCE: The Times
Monday 20 Nov 1933, pg.17
SIR ROBERT WILLIAM DIBDIN - Sir Robert William Dibdin, a former president of the Law Society, died yesterday at home at Hampstead at the age of 85. The eldest son of the Rev. Robert Dibdin, and brother of Sir Lewis Dibdin, Dean of the Arches, he was admitted a solicitor in 1871, and became senior partner in the firm of Bridges, Sawtell and Co., of Red Lion Square, Holborn. In the affairs of the borough of Holborn he took a prominent part, was Mayor in 1902-3, and was honorary freeman and an alderman. In recognition of his 50 years’ service to Conservative principles in the borough he was entertained at dinner by the local Conservative Association last month, and was presented with a salver. He was president of the Law Society in 1924, an honorary member of the American and Canadian Bar Associations, president of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, treasurer and chairman of the National Benevolent Institution, and honorary secretary of the French Hospital. He was knighted in 1925. Sir Robert Dibdin married in 1882 Eugenie Emilie Schwartz-Trub; she died in 1925 leaving three sons and four daughters.

SOURCE: The Times
Monday 20 Sep 1841, pg.4
THOMAS DIBDIN - Death of Thomas Dibdin The Dramatic Author. (From a Correspondent)
This extraordinary writer, whether regarded as a man of talent or industry, as an original genius or an adapter, died on Thursday, the 16th, at his house in Myddel-ton-place, Pentonville, aged 70. His father was the celebrated Charles Dibdin, the naval song writer and the author of the Padlock, the former of whose productions will live while England has a ship or a sailor to man it. Thomas Dibdin had for his godfather the illustrious David Garrick, and was introduced to the stage in the year 1775, being then only four years of age, in the pageant of Shakespeare’s “Jubilee” in the character of Cupid. Mrs. Siddons personated Venus on the occasion. He received the rudiments of a good classical education with Mr. Galland in the north, and was, at the age of sixteen, placed, as an apprentice to Mr. Rawlings (afterwards Sir William Rawlings), in Moorfields, to learn the trade of an upholsterer. “But who can control his fate?” After a servitude of four years he quitted his apprenticeship, and joined a small company of actors, under the management of Mr. Rickland, at Folkestone, in Kent; this was in 1789; after six years spent in the various theatres in the empire, during which time he had performed in every department of the drama, and written more than 1,000 songs, he returned to London in 1795, and after writing a number of dramas for the different minor theatres, all of which were highly successful, he was engaged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in the season of 1799, on which occasion his first production was acted, a local piece, called The Mouth of the Nile. For 14 years he continued a member of the theatre; and among the numerous comedies, operas, farces, &c., that have been given to the public are The Cabinet, The English Fleet, Birthday, Mother Goose, Jew and the Doctor, Valentine and Orson, and Past Ten o’clock, pieces that will keep possession of the stage while a taste for the drama exists. The number of his various dramatic writings during a period of 50 years might appear incredible, but they are before the public. He lived in intimacy with the most eminent men of his time, but it is a subject of regret that he passed the last few years of his life in comparative indigence. At the period of his death he was employed in arranging and compiling a complete edition of his father’s sea songs by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, under the patronage of Lord Minto, for which a weekly sum was paid to him, and shortly before his death he received the sum of 100l from the Royal Bounty Fund. He was married twice. One of his sons by his first wife holds a respectable employment in the Post-office. By his second wife he has left a young family quite unprovided for, and we hope that some of the managers whose treasuries his writings have enriched,* and the actor whose present popularity his patronage aided so materially, will not permit the widow and children to endure the winter’s blast, now that “poor Tom’s a-cold”.
* The pantomime of Mother Goose produced more than 30,000l profit to the managers of Covent Garden Theatre; and the High Mettled Racer 12,000l to the proprietors of Astley’s.

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