Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was a playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years, he was also a Member of Parliament aligned with the British Whig Party. Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Westminister Abbey.
R. B. Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then-f...
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Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was a playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years, he was also a Member of Parliament aligned with the British Whig Party. Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Westminister Abbey.
R. B. Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then-fashionable Dorset Street. He was a pupil at Harrow Boarding School outside London from 1762 to 1768. His mother, Frances Sheridan, was a playwright and novelist. She had several plays produced in London in the 1760s, though she is best known for her novel The Memoirs of Sidney Biddulph (1761). His father, Thomas Sheridan, was for a while an actor-manager at the Theatre Royal, Dublin but, following his move to England, he gave up acting and wrote a number of books concerning education and, especially, the standardisation of the English language...
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