DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall, D.D., nephew of the preceding, a celebrated philologist and antiquarian, was born at Calcutta in 1775. He received his education at St John's College, Oxford, and afterwards entered on the study of law under Basil Montague. Abandoning the legal for the clerical profession, he took orders in 1804; and while holding various lectureships in the metropolis, he devoted himself with great ardour to literary pursuits. In 1824 he was appointed to the rectory of St Mary's, Bryanstone Square, an appointment which he held till his death in 1847. Dibdin's works are exceedingly voluminous. The most important are the Bibliomanta, the Biographical Decameron, the Biographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour, Reminiscences of a Literary Life, and Bibliotheca Spenseriana.