July 2025

Time Line

 

9 Nov 1883	Rex born
Midsummer 1895	Rex was a pupil at Herne House School run by Rev Taylor Jones in Margate. Passed Third Class Second Division in 7 subjects Rev T.J. was the brother-in-law of Rex’s Grandfather T.C. Dibdin
Christmas 1895	Passed 8 subjects Third Class First Division
December 1896	Passed 9 subjects Second Class Second Division
1899	Rex passed a number Of Oxford Local Exams as a Junior Candidate
June 1901	Rex matriculated at London University
1901-1902	Passed exams at South Western Polytechnic – engineering and chemistry
1901-1902	High distinguished Magnetism and English
1902	Second Class in advance stage Inorganic Chemistry Board of Education South Kensington
Oct 1904	Rex Registered at University College Hospital
1905	Interesting incident at Art lecture by Agnes Robertson
August 1905	Rex appointed by London County Council as a Gas Examiner 10/-a day on call
1906	Rex wrote article about sewage for a Civil Service Journal
1911	Rex and William J Dibdin registered a co. name together.
14 Feb 1912	Rex Married Elsie Millicent Marvin
1909	Rex’s brother
Aug 1915	LCC Detailed instruction to Gas Examiners supplied
5th Sept 1915	Rex enlisted
21 July 1915	Rex enlisted for WW1 Army Service Corps, Staff Quarter Master Sergeant,
April 1916	Rex seriously injured went to hospital in Sheffield. Scars on left cheek and right leg
7 June 1916	Waiting for discharge at Scotton Camp Yorks
5 July 1916	Rex discharged from the army
Dec 1916	Rex and Elsie living at 40 Elm Grove Road Barnes
Dec 1921	Letter thanking him for Gas Examining work at Lewisham
Dec 1921	Rex and Elsie living at 7 Barston Road West Norwood -just off Idmiston Road
1922	Rex produced a book about Red Indian Picture Painting
1922	Rex wrote a draft about Chinese symbols
By 1923	Lionel A Dibdin was running his own Civil Engineering/Property firm
Jan 23	Moved out of 7 Barston Road to sell it
21 -3- 1923	Rex enters The Old Manor in Salisbury
22-3-1923	First Letter from Elsie after accompanying him to the Old Manor
7 -4-1923	Handed over tenancy of 19 Dalmore Road after a very short stay
15 -4 -1923	Elsie hand another heart attack
3 8 23	Rex moved out of Manor Hall and into Maudsley Hospital
By sept 5 23	Rex had discharged himself from Maudsley and moved in with parents at Idmiston Road
Sept 1923	Rex had medical examination by Sir John Collie for the LCC
Dec 1923	Rex returned to London County Council – give an official warrant
1924	Rex wrote a second draft about Chinese symbolism
1924 and 1925	Rex and his father W.J.Dibdin registered a company together
1925	Rex father died
1925	Penultimate letter from Elsie written only because of Rex’s father’s death
1925	Rex changed details of the Dibdin company
1928	Rex mother died
1928	Last letter from Elsie returning £5
1928	Rex related to Peggy
By 1931	Peggy settled in to become Rex’s “housekeeper” at Idmiston Rd
March 1933	Cecily and Lionel, Rex’s brother die in plane crash – official adult next of kin
22 May 1933	Rex applied for patent for sewage sediment tank system Living at 31 Idmiston Road
March 1934	Rex and Peggy living at 11 Bishopsthorpe Road Lewisham
March 1936	Letter from the Gas Referees regarding Gas work in Lower Sydenham
Oct 1938	Rex had closed tenancy at 11 Bishopsthorpe Road
1938	Rex and Peggy living at 17 Wynell Road Forest Hill
Dec 1943	Croydon Council appoints Rex as a Gas Examiner
14 Jan 1944	Rex wrote letter of advice to Joan re religious issues.
March 1944	Croydon Council gives Rex temporary appointment as Gas Examiner
March 1944	Rex and Peggy living at 17 Wynell Road Forest Hill
1952	Rex gave his niece Joan away in marriage in place of her deceased father Lionel
1953	Article from Rex’s bank manager “An Examiner Surveys”
12 July 1957	Rex died