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Dictionary of National Biography


ERRATA IN VOLUME XV


DIAMOND—DRAKE

N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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2 i 22-24 Dibdin, Charles: for It is most improbable that . . . . eighteenth child read Charles was probably the twelfth child (of fourteen)
29-31 for won notice at Winchester College . . . . the concert-rooms read won him the position of chorister at Winchester Cathedral under Fussell, the organist, and soon the Winchester concert-rooms
ii 4 for 1762 . . . . next season, 1763, read 1764, and twice repeated it next season.
5 for the former year read 1762
12 for next season read on 31 Jan. 1765
13-14 for 'Love in a Village' read 'The Maid of the Mill'
16 for set the fashion of wearing read his triumph led to the wearing of
37 for altered speedily to read which was given in 1770 the sub-title of
40 for He had read According to current report he had
44-45 for All his children . . . . young. She read with the result that she
14-9 f.e. for a so-called Mrs. Davenet . . . . was born read Harriet Pitt, a dancer at Covent Garden, who played small parts Her children by Dibdin included Charles I. M. Dibdin, born
8 f.e. for Thomas read Thomas Dibdin and omit took
7 f.e. for his father's name about 1799. read Dibdin deserted Harriet Pitt about 1774, and she then returned to the stage under the name of Mrs. Davenet.
2 f.e. for Princess Matilda read Princess Louisa Ann
l.l. for In 1768 read On 30 Oct. 1768
3 i 1 for the Haymarket read Drury Lane Theatre
19 f.e. for 1771 read 1772
8 f.e. after two interludes insert 'The Palace of Mirth' and 'The Brickdust man'
7-6 f.e. for performed in the summer of 1772.reacZ among many other pieces in 1772.
3 f.e.
ii 7 for Anne Wild or Wyld read Anne Maria Wylde
23 f.e. for the earliest read an early example
4 i 3 for on 3 Jan. 1779 'The Touchstone.' read later in the same year 'The Touchstone,' a speaking pantomime.
28-29 for Dibdin now commenced giving musical entertainments at the Royal Circus read Dibdin established the Royal Circus
30 after Surrey Theatre insert where musical entertainments, many of his own composition, were long given
36-38 for 'The Benevolent Tar' . . . . in 1782 read 'The Cestus,' 'Tom Thumb,' and 'The Benevolent Tar' were brought out respectively in 1783, 1784, and 1785

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