Life
1775-1817 [bapt. Thomas Sheridan]; son of R. B. Sheridan [q.v.] with Elizabeth Linley;
b. 17 March, Dorset St., Dublin; poems incl. one reprinted in The Warder (14 March 1824); m. Caroline Henrietta [q.v. - née Callander], 1805; f. of ‘three beauties’, Lady Dufferin (Helen
Blackwood), Mrs Caroline Norton, and F. C. Sheridan; wrote unpublished
play, The Prussian (London 1813); also believed to have written
A Speaking Pantomime, attrib. to Charles Lamb; appt. colonial treasurer
at Cape of Good Hope; served as colonial secretary in the Cape of Good Hope; d. 12 Sept. 1817 at the Cape; his son Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1806-88) was a liberal MP who favoured extending the vote. ODNB PI
Quotations
Pocket money: On his father’s threatening to cut him off with only a shilling,
he is reputed to have inquired, ‘I don’t suppose there’s
any possibility of having the shilling now, Papa?’.
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