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Thomas John Dibdin was an English playwright and actor. Some of his plays were produced in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century. Thomas John Dibdin's father Charles Dibdin (1745 - 1814) was an actor, composer and writer and his brother Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin (1768 - 1833), also known as Charles Dibdin the younger, was a theatre manager and writer. Thomas John Dibdin's son, Charles Alexander Dibdin (1815 - 1868) lived in Sydney, New South Wales, in the early 1840s and wrote or adapted plays for Sydney theatre.

Source: John Russell Stephens, ‘Dibdin, Thomas John (1771–1841)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7589, accessed 15 April 2014]