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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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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    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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  • 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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  • Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong Richard Brinsley Knowles (1820–1882), British journalist Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright and...
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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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  • Richard Brinsley Knowles (17 January 1820 – 28 January 1882) was a British journalist. Knowles, son of James Sheridan Knowles, a dramatist, was born at...
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  • his wife, writer Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan. She was the sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Betsy Sheridan and the aunt of writer Alicia LeFanu...
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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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    Royal, Drury Lane in London. He was named after the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was a friend of his father. From 1809 to 1817 Peake was an...
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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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    was a red spy". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 January 2010. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ‘’Heavenly Hell: The Experiences of an Apprentice in a Four-Mast...
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    mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1761) July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born playwright and politician (b. 1751) July 14 – Francisco...
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