The Creevey Papers
Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Thomas Creevey, [November 1805?]
“Thursday evening.
“If you don’t leave town to-morrow, come and eat
your mutton with me in George St. and meet Adam and McMahon, and
more than all, my Son and Daughter.
“Mrs. Creevey
will excuse you at my request, and you will be a Piece of a Lion to have seen
so early Mrs. T. S.,* whom I think
lovely and engaging and interesting beyond measure, and, as far as I can judge,
with a most superior understanding.
“Yours ever,
William Adam (1751-1839)
Scottish barrister, Whig MP (1784-1812) and ally of Charles James Fox (whom he once
wounded in a duel); he was privy councillor (1815) and a friend of Sir Walter Scott.
Eleanor Creevey [née Branding] (d. 1818)
The daughter of Charles Branding (1733-1802); in 1779 she married William Ord (d. 1789)
and in 1802, the politician and diarist Thomas Creevey.
Thomas Creevey (1768-1838)
Whig politician aligned with Charles James Fox and Henry Brougham; he was MP for Thetford
(1802-06, 1807-18) Appleby (1820-26) and Downton (1831-32). He was convicted of libel in
1813.
Sir John McMahon, first baronet (1754 c.-1817)
Irish politician who was MP for Aldeburgh (1802-12); he was a friend of Sheridan and
secretary to the Prince Regent.
Caroline Henrietta Sheridan [née Callander] (1779-1851)
Novelist, the second daughter of Colonel James Callander; in 1805 she married Tom
Sheridan, son of the playwright; the poet Caroline Norton was their daughter.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Anglo-Irish playwright, author of
The School for Scandal (1777),
Whig MP and ally of Charles James Fox (1780-1812).
Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817)
Actor, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Elizabeth Linley; he was manager of Drury
Lane when it burned in 1808; he died of consumption, the disease that killed his
mother.
