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Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and politician (1751–1816)
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Portrait by
John Hoppner
c.
1788-92
Treasurer of the Navy
In office
1806–1807
Monarch
George III
Prime Minister
Lord Grenville
Preceded by
George Canning
Succeeded by
George Rose
Personal details
Born
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
1751-10-30
30 October 1751
Dublin
, Ireland
Died
7 July 1816
(1816-07-07)
(aged 64)
London, England
Party
Whig
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Ann Linley
Esther Jane Ogle
Children
Thomas Sheridan
Parent(s)
Thomas Sheridan
Frances Chamberlaine
Profession
Playwright, politician
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
(30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and
Whig
politician who sat in the
British House of Commons
from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of
Stafford
Westminster
and
Ilchester
. The owner of the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as
The Rivals
(1775),
The Duenna
(1775),
The School for Scandal
(1777) and
A Trip to Scarborough
(1777). He served as
Treasurer of the Navy
from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at
Poets' Corner
in
Westminster Abbey
. His plays remain a central part of the
Western canon
and are frequently performed around the world.
Early life
edit
Portrait of a Gentleman
, traditionally identified as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by
John Hoppner
Sheridan was born in 1751 in
Dublin
, Ireland, where his family had a house on the then fashionable
Dorset Street
. His mother,
Frances Sheridan
, was an Anglo-Irish playwright and novelist. She had two plays produced in London in the early 1760s, though she is best known for her novel
The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph
(1761).
His
Irish
father,
Thomas Sheridan
, was for a while an actor-manager at the
Smock Alley Theatre
in Dublin, but following his move to England in 1758, he gave up acting and wrote several books on the subject of education, especially the standardisation of the English language in education.
His elder brother was
Charles Francis Sheridan
His paternal grandfather was
The Rev.
Thomas Sheridan
from
County Cavan
, who was a close friend of
Jonathan Swift
While his family was in Dublin, Richard attended the English Grammar School in
Grafton Street
. In 1758, when he was seven years old, the Sheridans moved permanently to England.
He was a pupil at
Harrow School
from 1762 to 1768.
At the end of his 1768 school year, his father employed a private tutor, Lewis Ker, to direct his studies in his father's house in London, while
Domenico Angelo
instructed him in fencing and horsemanship.
In 1772, aged 20, Sheridan fought two duels with Captain Thomas Mathews, who had written a newspaper article defaming the character of
Elizabeth Ann Linley
, whom Sheridan intended to marry. In the first duel, they agreed to fight in
Hyde Park
, but finding it too crowded they went first to the Hercules Pillars tavern (on the site where
Apsley House
now stands at
Hyde Park Corner
) and then on to the Castle Tavern in Henrietta Street,
Covent Garden
Far from its romantic image, the duel was short and bloodless. Mathews lost his sword and, according to Sheridan, was forced to 'beg for his life' and sign a retraction of the article.
The apology was made public and Mathews, infuriated by the publicity the duel had received, refused to accept his defeat as final and challenged Sheridan to another duel. Sheridan was not obliged to accept this challenge but could have become a social pariah if he had not.
citation needed
The second duel, fought in July 1772 at Kingsdown near Bath,
was a much more ferocious affair. This time both men broke their swords but carried on fighting in a 'desperate struggle for life and honour'.
10
Both were wounded, Sheridan dangerously, and he had to be 'borne from the field with a portion of his antagonist's weapon sticking through an ear, his breast-bone touched, his whole body covered with wounds and blood, and his face nearly beaten to jelly with the hilt of Mathews' sword'.
11
Mathews escaped in a
post chaise
. Eight days after the bloody affair the
Bath Chronicle
was able to announce that Sheridan was out of danger.
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, aged 31, by
Gainsborough
National Gallery of Art
Later that year, Elizabeth and the 21-year-old Richard eloped and set up house in London on a lavish scale. Sheridan had little money and no immediate prospects of any, other than his wife's
dowry
. The young couple entered the fashionable world and apparently held up their end in entertaining. Sheridan was a patron of
Margaret Cuyler
and she was his presumed mistress. As his protégée she appeared at Drury Lane in January 1777, despite being a poor actress.
12
Literary career
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In 1775 Sheridan's first play,
The Rivals
, was produced at London's
Covent Garden Theatre
. It was a failure on its first night, and
John Lee
's performance as Sir Lucius O'Trigger was criticised for rendering the character "ridiculous and disgusting". Sheridan rewrote the play and presented it again a few days later, with
Laurence Clinch
replacing Lee in the role.
13
In its reworked form it was a huge success,
14
immediately establishing the young playwright's reputation and the favour of fashionable London. It went on to become a standard of
English literature
Shortly after the success of
The Rivals
, Sheridan and his father-in-law
Thomas Linley the Elder
, a successful composer, produced the opera
The Duenna
. This piece, warmly received, played for seventy-five performances.
His most famous play,
The School for Scandal
, premiered at Drury Lane on 8 May 1777. It is considered one of the greatest
comedies of manners
in English. It was followed by
The Critic
(1779), an updating of the satirical
Restoration play
The Rehearsal
Having quickly made his name and fortune, in 1776 Sheridan bought
David Garrick
's share in the
Drury Lane
patent, and in 1778 the remaining share; his later plays were all produced there.
15
In 1778 Sheridan wrote
The Camp
, which commented on the ongoing threat of a French invasion of Britain. The same year Sheridan's brother-in-law
Thomas Linley
, a young composer who worked with him at Drury Lane Theatre, died in a boating accident. Sheridan had a rivalry with his fellow playwright
Richard Cumberland
and included a parody of Cumberland in his play
The Critic
. On 24 February 1809 (despite the much vaunted fire safety precautions of 1794) the theatre burned down. On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street while watching the fire, Sheridan was famously reported to have said, "A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside."
16
Sheridan was the manager of the theatre for many years, and later became sole owner with no managerial role.
Political career
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In
Uncorking Old Sherry
(1805),
James Gillray
caricatured Sheridan as a bottle of
sherry
, uncorked by Pitt and bursting out with puns, invective, and fibs.
In 1780, Sheridan entered the
House of Commons
as the ally of
Charles James Fox
on the side of the American Colonials in the political debate of that year. He is said to have paid the
burgesses
of Stafford five guineas apiece to allow him to represent them. As a consequence, his first speech in Parliament was a defence against the charge of bribery.
In 1787 Sheridan demanded the
impeachment
of
Warren Hastings
, the first
Governor-General of India
. His speech
17
in the House of Commons was described by
Edmund Burke
, Charles James Fox, and
William Pitt
as the greatest ever delivered in ancient or modern times.
18
In Commons, Sheridan was known as an engaging, and often entertaining orator. His speeches at the Hastings impeachment were later published as a 59-page booklet.
19
20
In 1793, during the debates on the
Aliens Act
designed to prevent
French Revolutionary
spies and saboteurs from flooding into the country, Edmund Burke made a speech in which he claimed there were thousands of French agents in Britain ready to use weapons against the authorities. To dramatically emphasise his point he threw down a knife onto the floor of the House of Commons. Sheridan shouted, "Where's the fork?", which led to much of the house collapsing in laughter.
21
In April 1798 he appeared at the trial in
Maidstone
of
United Irishmen
accused of treasonable conspiracy with the French. Along with
Charles James Fox
Lord Moira
and other radical Whig grandees, he testified on behalf of
Arthur O'Connor
. O'Connor was acquitted. His companion, Father
James Coigly
was hanged.
22
23
During the
invasion scare of 1803
Sheridan penned an 'Address to the People':
THEY, by a strange Frenzy driven, fight for Power, for Plunder, and extended Rule—WE, for our Country, our Altars, and our Homes.—THEY follow an ADVENTURER, whom they fear—and obey a Power which they
hate
—WE serve a
Monarch
whom we love—a God whom we adore...They call on us to barter all of Good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate Chance of Something better which they
promise
.—Be our plain Answer this: The Throne WE honour is the PEOPLE'S CHOICE—the Laws we reverence are our brave Fathers' Legacy—the Faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of Charity with all Mankind, and die with Hope of Bliss beyond the Grave. Tell your
Invaders
this; and tell them too, we seek no Change; and, least of all, such Change as
they
would bring us.
24
He held the posts of Receiver-General of the
Duchy of Cornwall
(1804–1807) and
Treasurer of the Navy
(1806–1807). Sheridan was noted for his close political relationship with the
Prince of Wales
, leading a faction of his supporters in the Commons. By 1805 when the Prince was cooling on his previous support of
Catholic Emancipation
Sheridan,
George Tierney
and others announced their own opposition to it.
25
When, after 32 years in Parliament, he lost re-election in 1812, his creditors closed in on him and his last years were harassed by debt and disappointment. On hearing of his debts, the American Congress offered Sheridan £20,000 in recognition of his efforts to prevent the
American War of Independence
. He refused the offer.
Mrs Sheridan (Miss Linley)
Death and commemoration
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In December 1815 Sheridan became ill and was largely confined to bed. He died in poverty. However, dukes, earls, lords, viscounts, the
Lord Mayor of London
, and other notables attended his funeral, and he was buried in the
Poets' Corner
of
Westminster Abbey
In 1825 the Irish writer
Thomas Moore
published a sympathetic two-volume biography,
Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, which became a major influence on subsequent perceptions. A
Royal Society of Arts
blue plaque
was unveiled in 1881 to commemorate Sheridan at 14
Savile Row
in Mayfair.
26
Another plaque is in Stafford.
Family life
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He was twice married. He and his first wife
Elizabeth
had a son:
Thomas (Tom) Sheridan
, who married
Caroline Henrietta Callander
, daughter of
Col.
Sir James Campbell
of Craigforth,
Stirling
, and Ardkinglas
Argyll
, and was the father of
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
Caroline Norton
and
Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
Elizabeth also had a daughter, Mary, born 30 March 1792 but fathered by her lover,
Lord Edward FitzGerald
27
After Elizabeth's death, Sheridan fulfilled his promise to look after Thomas and FitzGerald's baby daughter. A nurse was employed to care for the child at his
Wanstead
home.
28
The baby had a series of fits one evening in October 1793, when she was 18 months old, dying before a doctor could attend. She was interred beside her mother at
Wells Cathedral
29
In 1795, Richard B. Sheridan married Esther Jane Ogle (1776–1817), daughter of the
Dean of Winchester
. They had at least one child: Charles Brinsley Sheridan (1796–1843).
30
At one time Sheridan owned
Downe House, Richmond Hill
in London.
31
Affairs
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Sheridan was a
womanizer
. He had recorded
affairs
with
Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe
(he dedicated his 1777 play
The School for Scandal
to her), and a disastrous affair with
Harriet Spencer
, beginning in 1789. Sheridan's affair with Harriet was disastrous for her, as the worst-case scenario actually happened: her abusive husband
Viscount Duncannon
walked in on Harriet and Sheridan having intercourse. Violently enraged, Duncannon immediately wanted to divorce Harriet. Divorce in the 18th century was social ruin for women, and Harriet narrowly escaped such calamity only when Duncannon's father
William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough
and the powerful Cavendish clan sided with Harriet, making divorcing her social suicide.
32
Whilst attempting to win back his wife
Eliza
, one of multiple similar occasions, he conceived a child with a governess named Caroline Townsend in 1789. Sheridan's friends,
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
and
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
helped him arrange for Caroline to go abroad to deliver, and adopted the baby, whom they named Fanny Mortimer. Fanny "grew up at Devonshire House as a sort of foundling, inhabiting a nether world between the servants' quarters and the nursery. After Georgiana died in 1806, Harriet sent Fanny to private school and eventually saw her marry quite well. Fanny always suspected that either Harriet or Georgiana was her mother and never quite recovered from learning that her true mother was a mere governess."
33
Character
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To his contemporaries, Sheridan was as known for his dazzling wit, lively humour, and political acuity as for his duplicitousness, vindictive nastiness, and general profligacy. Sheridan was a social-climber who had no qualms about backstabbing friends to maintain his social status amongst actual aristocrats and to gain power in Whig society. Perhaps the best summary of Sheridan's character was by Sir Gilbert Elliot,
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
who observed to his wife: "He employs a great deal of art, with a great deal of pain, to gratify, not the proper passion in such affairs, but vanity; and he deals in the most intricate plotting and under plotting, like a Spanish play."
34
By 1789, Sheridan's two-faced cunning made him despised by most of Whig society.
35
Like most of the
Ton (le bon ton)
, Sheridan drank heavily and was a gambling addict, gambling most nights with money he did not have. Whilst most of his fellow gambling addicts attempted to pay their creditors, Sheridan pointedly never paid his debts, as he believed paying his creditors "only encourages them."
36
Sheridan's behaviour towards women in particular was dishonourable. A rake and professional storyteller, he was a gifted apologiser and made promises to his wives and lovers he knew he would never keep.
37
Sheridan sexually harassed and assaulted women. An example of this is his sexual harassment and then assault of Lady Webster, later known as Lady Holland,
Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
. After falsely accusing her of having an affair with a man she "did not care for in the least", he threatened to ruin her by telling society of her imaginary affair. When Lady Webster did not submit to his advances, he retaliated by later assaulting her in her home. Lady Webster herself recorded the assault: "...when I defied [his] threat he took another most extraordinary method – I was told one day that a servant had brought a message which he would deliver to no one but myself, and before I could order him to be admitted, in entered Sheridan, wrapped up in a great watchcoat, and after my servant had quitted the room he rushed up to me and with a ferociousness quite frightful bit my cheek so violently that the blood ran on down my neck – I had just enough sense to ring the bell and he withdrew."
38
By 1802, Sheridan's despicable behaviour took an even more sinister turn, and he began harassing one of his few remaining friends, Harriet Spencer,
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
39
In 1805, Sheridan had escalated his harassment of Harriet to anonymously sending her threatening letters; as they had been longtime friends and former lovers, Harriet quickly deduced the author's identity as Sheridan's from his handwriting.
40
Sheridan accosted Harriet in public and made a scene any chance he could, reproaching her for not loving him enough and declaring his undying love for her.
41
Despite his cruelty towards her, Harriet was kind to him on his deathbed in 1816. In return, Sheridan grasped her hand hard and told her he would haunt her after his death. Harriet, petrified, asked why, having persecuted her all his life, he was determined to continue his persecution after death. "Because I am resolved you shall remember me." After enduring a few more minutes of his terror, Harriet fled the room.
42
Three days later, Richard Brinsley Sheridan died alone.
Works
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Physical Aid,—or—Britannia recover'd from a Trance;—also, the Patriotic Courage of Sherry Andrew; & a peep thro' the Fog
(1803) by
James Gillray
, showing Sheridan as a
Silenus
-like and ragged
Harlequin
defending Henry Addington and Lord Hawkesbury on the Dover coast from the advancing French rowboats filled with French soldiers, led by Napoleon. Sheridan says: "Let 'em come! damn'me!!!—Where are the French Buggabo's? Single handed I'd beat forty of 'em!!! dam'me I'd pay 'em like Renter Shares, sconce off their half Crowns!!!—mulct them out of their Benefits, &c, come Drury Lane Slang over em!."
The Rivals
(1775)
St Patrick's Day
(1775)
The Duenna
(1775)
A Trip to Scarborough
(1777)
The School for Scandal
(1777)
The Camp
(1778)
The Critic
(1779)
The Glorious First of June
(1794)
Pizarro
(1799)
Clio's Protest
(written 1771, published 1819)
He also wrote a selection of poems and political speeches during his time in parliament.
Adaptations and cultural references
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Sheridan is played by
Barry Stanton
in the film
The Madness of King George
(1994). In
The Duchess
(2008), a film based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan is played by
Aidan McArdle
and
The School for Scandal
is performed in the movie.
Chris Humphreys
has used the character of Jack Absolute from
The Rivals
as a basis for his books
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
Absolute Honour
and
Jack Absolute
. These are published under the name C. C. Humphreys.
Sheridan was a village in
Toronto Township, Ontario
, named for R. B. Sheridan. Its name was later used by a neighbourhood, Sheridan Homelands, which is now part of the City of
Mississauga
. Sheridan was shortlisted as the name of the newly incorporated city in 1974, which lies just west of the province's capital city of Toronto.
43
In
Jules Verne
's novel
Around the World in 80 Days
, the protagonist,
Phileas Fogg
, is said to live at "No. 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814." While Sheridan did indeed live in Savile Row, he lived at No. 14 rather than at No. 7 (and he died in 1816, not in 1814 as claimed in the book).
44
See also
edit
Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes
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Campbell Ross, Ian (2004).
"Sheridan, Frances (1724–1766)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/25365
. Retrieved
2 September
2014
(Subscription,
Wikipedia Library
access or
UK public library membership
required.)
Rae 1897a
, pp. 87–88.
Rae, William Fraser
(1897).
"Sheridan, Charles Francis"
. In
Lee, Sidney
(ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 52. London:
Smith, Elder & Co
Dictionary of Irish Biography
D.I.B.
): Sheridan, Thomas.
Thomas Sheridan Biography
at James Boswell Info; retrieved 30 June 2013.
Rae 1897
, p. 78.
Wheatley 2011
, p. 19.
Rae 1897
, p. 79.
"Bath, Wednesday July 8th"
Bath Chronicle
, vol. XII, no. 612, p. 3, 9 July 1772 – via
British Newspaper Archive
Steinmetz 1868
, p. 17.
Fintan O'Toole: A Traitor's Kiss
"Cuyler [married name Rice], Margaret (1758–1814), actress and courtesan"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004.
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/64329
. Retrieved
28 November
2020
(Subscription,
Wikipedia Library
access or
UK public library membership
required.)
James Boaden
Memoirs of Mrs Siddons
, H. C. Carey, I. Lea and E. Littell, Philadelphia, 1827, Vol. 1, p. 122.
De Breffny, Brian (1983).
Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia
. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 217.
The Oxford Companion to the Theatre
, edited by
Phyllis Hartnoll
, OUP (1951)
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(1999)
OUP
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. "At the Trial of Warren Hastings",
The World’s Famous Orations
, Ireland, 1906
John O'Connor Power, 'Irish Wit and Humour', Time, 1890. p. 480.
The Making of an Orator
, 1906, pp. 187–194
The Celebrated Speech of Richard Brinsley Sheridan . . . On His Summing Up the Evidence of the Begum Charge Against Warren Hastings, Esq.
(London: Porter, 1788)
Landfield, J. (1961). "The Triumph and Failure of Sheridan’s Speeches Against Hastings".
Speech Monographs
, 28(3), 143–156.
Arnold-Baker 1996
, p. 393.
Madden, Richard Robert (1846).
The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: v. 1
. J. Madden & Company. pp.
27–
30, 41.
Webb, Alfred (1878).
"Arthur O'Connor – Irish Biography"
www.libraryireland.com
. Retrieved
13 February
2022
Frank J. Klingberg and Sigurd B. Hustvedt (eds.),
The Warning Drum. The British Home Front Faces Napoleon. Broadsides of 1803
(University of California Press, 1944), pp. 93–94.
David, Saul.
Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency
. Grove Press, 2000.
Sheridan Plaque – Mayfair, London
at English Heritage. Retrieved 30 June 2013
Chedzoy (1998)
, pp. 278, 281.
Chedzoy (1998)
, p. 297
Chedzoy (1998)
, p. 298
Jeffares, A. Norman
(2008).
"Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/25367
. Retrieved
19 June
2015
(Subscription,
Wikipedia Library
access or
UK public library membership
required.)
Historic England
"Downe House (1249949)"
National Heritage List for England
. Retrieved
19 June
2015
The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman, p. 233
The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman, p. 233
The Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, 1751–1806
by Lady Minto, p. 312
The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman, p. 208
Sheridan
by W. Sichel, p. 167
Privilege and Scandal
by Janet Gleeson, p. 105
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
by Linda Kelly, p. 165
Privilege and Scandal
by Janet Gleeson, p. 219
Privilege and Scandal
by Janet Gleeson, p. 262
Privilege and Scandal
by Janet Gleeson, p. 263
Recollections of A Long Life
by John Cam Hobhouse Broughton, p. 102
Riendeau, Roger (1985),
Mississauga, An Illustrated History
, Windsor Books
exploringlondon (22 January 2014).
"10 fictional character addresses in London – 9. 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens…"
Exploring London
. Retrieved
9 December
2020
References
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Arnold-Baker, Charles (1996),
The Companion to British History
, Longcross Press
ISBN missing
Chedzoy, Alan (1998),
Sheridan's Nightingale
, Allison & Busby,
ISBN
0-7490-0341-3
Kelly, Linda
(1997),
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A Life
, London: Sinclair-Stevenson,
ISBN
978-1-856-19207-1
Rae, William Fraser
(1897a),
"Sheridan, Thomas (1719–1788)"
, in
Lee, Sidney
(ed.),
Dictionary of National Biography
, vol. 52, London:
Smith, Elder & Co
, pp.
87–
88
Steinmetz, Andrew (1868),
The Romance of Duelling in All Times and Countries
, Chapman and Hall
Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
(2011),
Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall: Or, a Ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Parkvb
(illustrated ed.), Cambridge University Press,
ISBN
9781108036504
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
Rae, William Fraser (1897), "
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
", in
Lee, Sidney
(ed.),
Dictionary of National Biography
, vol. 52, London:
Smith, Elder & Co
, pp.
78–
85
O'Toole, Fintan
A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brindsley Sheridan, 1751–1816
, New York, 1998.
ISBN missing
Further reading
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Cousin, John William
(1910), "
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
",
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
, London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via
Wikisource
Klingberg, Frank J.; Hustvedt, Sigurd B., eds. (1944),
The Warning Drum. The British Home Front Faces Napoleon. Broadsides of 1803
, University of California Press
Taylor, David Francis (2012),
Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Oxford University Press
Richard Brinsley Sheridan profile
, TheatreHistory.com
, retrieved
2 March
2008
External links
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Works by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in eBook form
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at the
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
at the Internet Archive. Seven plays including
The School For Scandal
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan Volume One (1853)
at the Internet Archive.
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan Volume Two (1826)
at the Internet Archive.
Richard Brinlsey Sheridan Gallery
at the National Portrait Gallery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Collection
. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Photograph of the home of Sheridan on Dorset Street, Dublin
Political offices
Preceded by
George Canning
Treasurer of the Navy
1806–1807
Succeeded by
George Rose
Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Whitworth
Member of Parliament for
Stafford
1780–1806
Succeeded by
Richard Mansel-Philipps
Preceded by
Earl Percy
Member of Parliament for
Westminster
1806–1807
Succeeded by
Lord Cochrane
Preceded by
Sir William Manners
Member of Parliament for
Ilchester
1807–1812
Succeeded by
Lord Ward
Plays by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Plays
The Rivals
(1775)
The Duenna
(1775)
A Trip to Scarborough
(1777)
The School for Scandal
(1777)
The Camp
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