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. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Sheridan: Thomas Sheridan to Samuel Whitbread, [April 1814] in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Sheridan, 10 April 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) |