Person    | Male  Born 4/11/1751  Died 7/7/1816

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Categories: Seriously Famous, Theatre

Countries: Ireland

Playwright. Born Dublin. Pupil at Harrow School 1762-8. Married Elizabeth Linley at St Marylebone Church in 1773. 1780-5 they lived in the grand house "The Grove" in Harrow, immediately north-east of St Mary's Church. The associated stables are still named for him. His plays include: The Rivals (1775), School for Scandal (1777). Died London.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Old Church Garden - facts

The left-most of 3 plaques on the back wall of the garden.

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R. B. Sheridan - Hertford Street

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 - 1816, dramatist and statesman lived here, 1...

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R. B. Sheridan - Savile Row

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist, lived here, B: 1751, D: 1816. {Almost ...

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Sheridan's Stables

"Form rooms" is what many public schools call their class rooms, after the fo...

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People's Palace

People's Palace

Proposed by Walter Besant the first People's Palace was built on 5 acres of land on the Mile End Road, starting with the Queen's Hall, opened in 1887. By 1892 a library, swimming pool, gym and wint...

Building, Education, Sport / Games, Theatre

3 memorials
Austin Rudd

Austin Rudd

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Person, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Emma Cons

Emma Cons

Social reformer and theatre manager. Born London. Knew and was influenced by Octavia Hill, John Ruskin and Henrietta Barnett. Her involvement in the temperance movement led to her taking on the lea...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Theatre

3 memorials
St James's Theatre

St James's Theatre

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Building, Theatre

1 memorial
George Edwardes

George Edwardes

Theatre manager. Born Lincolnshire.  His cousins were Irish theatre managers which enabled him to start in the business.  He moved to London in the late 1870s and worked for D'Oyly Carte.  In 1885 ...

Person, Theatre

1 memorial