Lionel Aglio Dibdin

1881-1933

Property Developer
Artist, Musician & Poet

Married Cecily Haycraft      1909

Plane crash

Details of Estates      

Lionel Aglio Dibdin

b. 14 Jun 1881, St. Stephen's Ave., Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith [36]

m. 31 Aug 1909, Christchurch, Sutton, Surrey

d. 28 Mar 1933, Essen near Dixmude, Belgium

Funeral Pictures

Cecily Grace Haycraft

b. 1882, Highbury, London

d. 28 Mar 1933, Eesen near Dismude, Belgium

Oldest Male of  ten children.


Died in the worst plane crash this country had experienced 1933.
Lived in South London, Surrey area which seems to be the main habitat of the Dibdin family.
Worked as a property developer laying out estates in the Surrey and Sussex Counties. These estates were often based on large houses and  seriously took into account the environment and amenities.
He married Cecily Haycraft and had three children, the first, Stanley, died when he was eight years old. 
The second, Peter, died in 1943, in the war.
Joan Mary, the youngest, .... born in 1920

Details about the plane crash in which Lionel and Cecily died

 

Details of Estates      

 

 
He developed and built many of the first biological slate bed sewerage works
Like so many of the family he was talented in many respects, Musician, Poet, Artist.
 		A poem found amongst family papers

 

As a young man he worked with his father, William Joseph Dibdin, working on the bacteriological system of treating sewage and was an articled pupil to Mr. Chambers Smith, surveyor. He developed and built many of the first biological slate bed sewage works. [37]

Before WWI, during a big strike at the Dockland, he became a leader of a volunteer police force, from which he eventually joined the Special Constabulary.

When the war broke out he joined the Army, and as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, saw service in France.

Post war Lionel activities were in the Sutton district, where he had an office in Mulgrave-road, from where he carried on his business as a land dealer and estate developer. He was a man of great foresight in his estate development. He went to great lengths to save tress, even if it meant plotting a road around a particularly beautiful tree.

He was known as a jovial, good-humored man, ever ready to do his part. Particularly was this noticeable at the meetings of the Wallingtron British Legion, of which he was a most enthusiastic and generous supporter. [38]

Cecily, maiden name Haycraft, was a gifted and locally known musician and Lionel was an established and well respected property developer working in the Surrey area. He was renowned for his sympathetic estate design, not destroying the existing properties on an estate and designing the road layout to fit the existing trees. These estates still exist and properties highly valued in 2007

Lionel and Cecily Dibdin were returning from a short holiday just after he had bought the estate, Camilla Lacey, near Box Hill in Surrey. [39]

Two very well known and highly respected residents of Carshalton were amongst the victims who were burned to death when the air liner, "City of Liverpool." Crashed in flames at Dixmude, Belgium, on Tuesday Afternoon. They were Mr. and Mrs. Lionel A. Dibdin, of "Avondale," 79 Grosvenor Ave., Carshalton, Surrey.

Fifteen persons, the entire complement of passengers and crew of the Imperial Airways air liner, City of Liverpool, perished when the machine crashed in flames yesterday afternoon at Eesen, near Dismude, 70 miles west by north of Brussels. [40]

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1933 Dibdin, Lionel Aglio of 18 Mulgrave-road, Sutton and of 79 Grosvenor-ave Carshalton both in Surrey d. 28 Mar 1933 at Essen near Dixmude, Belgium. Probate LONDON 19 May to Maurice Andrews, Accountant, Effects £25,892 18s 7d. Resworn £77,147 7s 9d.

1934 Dibdin, Cecily Grace of 79 Grosvenor-ave. Carshalton, Surry widow died 28 Mar 1933 at Essen near Dixmude Belgium. Admin LONDON 10 Oct to the Public Trustee and Former Grant P.R. 11 Oct 1933 cessate.

1933 Dibdin, Cecily Grace of 79 Grosvenor-ave, Carshalton, widow, died 28 Mar 1933. Admin LONDON 11 Oct to Public Trustee. Effects £10,288 4s 8d. Further grant 10 Oct 1934.

 

Monday 3 Apr 1933, pg.1

LIONEL AGLIO DIBDIN - On March 28 1933, near Dixmunde, Belgium, Lionel Aglio Dibdin, husband of Cecily Grace Dibdin, aged 51. Funeral service at Christ Church, Sutton, Surrey, to-morrow (Tuesday) at 11am.

Lionel was a lieutenant during WWI

 

 

Children

Stanley Lionel Aglio Dibdin

Born in 1910 and died, aged 6, in 1917, Sutton, Surrey or Great London.

Peter Haycraft Dibdin

Peter was born in Sutton in 1913, and was 20 years old when his parents were killed in the plane crash. He was waiting for them at the airport.

During World War II he was in the Army, where on the 28th August 1943 he was killed in a gunnery accident.

Joan Mary Dibdin

Joan was born in 1920 in Sutton and aged 13 and away at school when her parents were killed.

Joan has the family musical and artistic streak and studied at the R.A.M. until called up in the war. During the war she worked as Red Cross nurse and then a motorbike dispatch rider in the army. She met her first husband in 1941/42 was married in 1942 and had her son Raoul on 11.3.1943. Her first husband, Anthony Benoit Guise, was drowned while going to the aid of another bather in Ceylon 11th Aug 1944, while on active service. Their son Raoul was then about 18 months old. [43]

Joan remarried on 26th July 1952, and with her second husband, Douglas Welburn, lived in Chiswick until 1973 when they moved to a smallholding farmhouse in Cumbria close to Hadrians Wall. Douglas Welburn died in a lorry accident on 2nd June 1981

Raoul married to Joanna Rowntree in York on 2ndJan 1965 and has two daughters Samantha born 28th Sept 1965 and Genevieve born 4th March 1968. Raoul qualified as an Engineer and worked for many years in the field until becoming a science and technology teacher in 1974. Joanna trained as a nurse and subsequently as a teacher. In 1977 the family moved to Otley in Yorkshire. [45]