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    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...
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    The Rivals (category Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
    The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The...
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  • Richard Sheridan may refer to: Richard Bingham Sheridan (1822–1897), Australian civil servant Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright...
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    The School for Scandal (category Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
    The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777...
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (bapt. 26 May 1806 – 2 May 1888) was an English Whig politician. He was born in London, the eldest son of Thomas Sheridan, colonial...
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    Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Thomas Gainsborough between 1785 and 1787. It was acquired by the National...
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  • named Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (The Rivals), poet and politician Sheridan may also refer to: Sheridan (surname) Sheridan Gilley...
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    Johnson, Elizabeth was herself the wife of the leading playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She was one of the most noted soprano singers of her day, though...
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    Pizarro (play) (category Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
    Pizarro is a 1799 historical tragedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was inspired by August von Kotzebue's play Die Spanier in Peru, based on the Spanish...
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    Thomas Sheridan (16 or 17 November 1775 – 12 September 1817), known as Tom Sheridan, was the only son of the Irish playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan...
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    of Richmond upon Thames, which has been occupied by playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger and model Jerry...
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    later William Pitt the Younger and Irish-born playwright and MP Richard Brinsley Sheridan were residents. Tailors started doing business in the area in...
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    James Sheridan Knowles (12 May 1784 – 30 November 1862) was an Irish dramatist and actor. A relative of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Knowles enjoyed success...
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    Frances Sheridan. Linley collaborated with his son Thomas in penning the comic opera The Duenna, with libretto by his son-in-law Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Linley's...
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    of Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an 1825 biography written by Thomas Moore about the life of the playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)...
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    craving love in her life, Harriet started a disastrous affair with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This affair was indeed catastrophic for Harriet, as the worst-case...
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    singer in her own right, eloped with the playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The centre house of the crescent (#16) was used as a residence...
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    known Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Charles Francis Sheridan, while his daughters were also writers - Alicia, a playwright, and Betsy Sheridan a diarist...
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  • "malaprop") comes from a character named "Mrs. Malaprop" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks (to...
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    Anthologia Hibernica (“Irish Anthology”). Samuel Whyte had taught Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and English Whig politician, of whom Moore later...
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  • Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong Richard Brinsley Knowles (1820–1882), British journalist Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright and...
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    his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights (his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful...
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    The Glorious First of June (play) (category Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
    The Glorious First of June is a 1794 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It depicts the Glorious First of June, a British naval victory over the French...
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    included Field Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. On 21 April 1926, Queen Elizabeth II was born at No. 17, the...
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    the title and subject of a dramatic tragedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, presented in 1799. Sheridan based his work on the German tragedy by August von...
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  • Elizabeth Sheridan may refer to: Betsy Sheridan, writer and sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer and spouse of Richard Brinsley Sheridan...
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    manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and to the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan for £22,000. They paid for the remodelling of the interior by...
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    Sadler Walter Scott Richard "Conversation" Sharp Martin Archer Shee Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan Sarah Siddons John Soane...
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  • The Duchess (film) (category Cultural depictions of Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
    Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey Aidan McArdle as The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan Simon McBurney as The Right Honourable Charles James Fox Sebastian...
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  • at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, then under the management of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, on 29 April 1800. The cast featured John Philip Kemble as De...
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