The Autobiography of William Jerdan
Tyrone Power to Francis Sheridan, [1834]
“I beg you will receive the bearer of this billet
kindly, even for love of us; his name is Maywood, he is a manager, and an honest man; a Scotchman, and a
liberal man; a player, and a gentleman; and you know rarely these accidents
combine. Moreover, he’s jocose, bibulous, musical; and, above all, my
friend. I’ve ask’d Mills* to
get him on the club as a stranger; urge the matter, Lord Mulgrave will do it. Your letter from Jamaica came duly to
hand, and old Com. Gen. Forbes has our thanks.
Herbert is gone to Italy. Eh! at New York I found his
cousin; what doing, think you? Why, teaching Latin and editing a magazine. I
would that George were capable of anything like this, and
one would not mind his going to the devil for a while. I hope you will find our
other friends yet unchanged, and lively. Give my love to everybody, and write
to me about home, and everywhere
Robert Campbell Maywood (1784-1856)
Scottish actor, afterwards manager of the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia from
1832; his date of birth is variously given.
Francis Mills (1793 c.-1854)
Connoisseur, writer, speculator in timber and railroads, and founder of the Garrick
Club.
Constantine Henry Phipps, first marquess of Normanby (1797-1863)
The son of Henry Phipps, first earl of Mulgrave; educated at Harrow and Trinity College,
Cambridge, he was a Whig MP, governor of Jamaica (1832-34), lord privy seal (1834),
lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1835), and ambassador at Paris (1846-52).
Tyrone Power (1797-1841)
Born in county Waterford, he was a provincial actor before making his reputation as a
performer of Irish roles in London and America in the 1820s and 30s.
Francis Cynric Sheridan (1812 c.-1843)
The third son of Tom Sheridan and brother of Caroline Norton; at the time of his death he
was treasurer of the Island of Mauritius.
