Dibben, Thomas, 1677/8-1741

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Dibben, Thomas, 1677/8-1741

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        ca. 1678-1741

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        DIBBEN, THOMAS, second son of Richard Dibben, Clare Market, London; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1696, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697, readm. as fellow commoner 1702, matr. 1699; BA 1699/1700; MA 1703; BD 1710; DD 1721; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jun 1699; ordained deacon (London) 16 Jun 1700, dispensation for priest’s orders 12 Jul 1701; Rector of Fontmell Magna, Dorset, from 16 Jul 1701; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, at Congress of Utrecht 1713; Precentor of St. Paul’s from 16 Jun 1714; Proctor for Bristol diocese in Convocations of 1715 and 1727; several references to “Dirty Dibben of Dorsetshire” will be found in HMC Bath MSS, vol. iii; became mentally deranged and lost all his money; a Latin poet of some celebrity; translated the Carmen Saeculare of Matthew Prior (qv) into Latin verse, 1700; m.; d. in The Poultry Compter, London 5 Apr 1741. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-00536

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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            Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

            The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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