Thomas Sheridan

(1775-1817)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sheridan, Thomas, 1775-1817 NRA: Sheridan Thomas (1775-1817) Poet Colonial Treasurer Cape of Good Hope DNB: Sheridan, Thomas [Tom] (1775-1817), actor and soldier LBT ID: ThSheri1817 VIAF ID: 65366080 LOC ID: n82208038	B/BAP: 1775-11-17 DIED: 1817-09-12
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
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.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Sheridan: Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Thomas Creevey, [November 1805?] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 12 August 1808 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 3 Mary and Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt [10 December 1808] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 11 March 1819 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIV. Found 1: ¶ 1 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1810 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 38 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (13 February 1830) 100-01 Found 1: ¶ 7 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Lord Byron’s Character and Writings” in The Southern Review 5 (May 1830) 463-522 Found 1: ¶ 20 [Charles Wentworth Dilke?], “The Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Athenaeum (4 September 1830) 552-55 Found 1: ¶ 32 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 34 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIV. 1818-1819 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 7: Edinburgh Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 8 Ch. 8: Edinburgh Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Ch. 14: Past Times Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. 17: The Criminal Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 11: Canning Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 19: James Perry Found 2: ¶ 23 ¶ 27 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Preface Found 1: ¶ n1 Appendix vol I Found 1: ¶ 4 R & T Sheridan I Found 6: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 9 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 R & T Sheridan III Found 1: ¶ n1 R & T Sheridan VIII Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 12 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXVI Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 1 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXI. 1837-40. Found 1: ¶ 4 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ n1 Ch. III: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 2