Thomas initially tried for a career in politics but was unsuccessful. He was an "only child", his mother having several miscarriages before Sheridan was born in mid-November 1775. She named him after Thomas Linley, and Thomas Sheridan, his maternal and paternal grandfathers respectively.
He was sent to boarding school in Hatton, Warwickshire in early 1786, where he was educated by Samuel Parr. Parr described him as having "great acuteness, excellent understanding, wit and humour, but not a particle of knowledge." The English historian William Smyth was engaged as his tutor after the death of Sheridan's mother in 1792. According to Smyth, Sheridan was the "idol of the young men" when at college in Cambridge and his fellow students thought him "the cleverest fellow in the place", although Smyth added his own rider clarifying that in humour and fun this was the case.
Sheridan married Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth (1779–1851), a daughter of Sir James Campbell, on 21 June 1805. Sheridan's father was initially against the marriage, and threatened to sever financial support to his son; Caroline did have a small inheritance but it was insufficient to fully support the couple. They had six or seven children. Their eldest son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was appointed as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838 and pursued a political career. The couple's daughters included Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye; the feminist Caroline Norton; and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.
Career
Sheridan unsuccessfully tried for a political career, firstly being involved in political shenanigans with his father to gain the Liskeard seat in 1804. He failed to be elected at Stafford in 1806 and 1807. He briefly served in the army in 1803 under Lord Moira as aide-de-camp then in Ireland where he served as a muster-master general in 1806. That year, his father gifted him a 25 per cent share of the Drury Lane Theatre where Sheridan became the manager. He also undertook managerial duties at the Lyceum Theatre, London while still managing the Theatre Royal. He wrote poetry, plays and melodramas, including Description of Characters in 1808 and The Russian, which was staged for 11 performances at Drury Lane from 13 May 1813. According to the tenor Michael Kelly, a leading figure in British musical theatre, Sheridan had "a good voice, and a true taste for music". Sheridan's verse about the loss of the frigate, Saldanha, on the coastline of Ireland on 4 December 1811, was described by Captain Jesse in the biography The Life of George Brummell as having more originality than any of Sheridan's father's poems.
A manuscript for the play The Siege of St Quintin staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in November 1808 demonstrates the working methods used by Sheridan and his father while managing the theatre. Drafts were read through and checked by Sheridan senior, further revised by the son and then transcribed.
While carrying out his army service under Lord Moira in Edinburgh, Sheridan was intimately involved with the wife of Peter Campbell, a wealthy businessman whose work had taken him to the West Indies. The affair led to the break up of the Campbell's marriage and in 1807, Sheridan was convicted of criminal conversation over it. Campbell was awarded £1,500 compensation, which Sheridan paid with money loaned by actors from the Drury Lane Theatre.
Like many of his relatives, including his mother and aunt, Sheridan was afflicted with tuberculosis and he moved abroad with his wife and eldest daughter to ease the symptoms; he was appointed as the Colonial Governor's treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1813 as a result of his father's influence with the Duke of York.
Legacy and death
Four years after taking up his appointment at the Cape of Good Hope, Sheridan died of tuberculosis on 12 September 1817; his body was transported back to Britain and buried at Wells Cathedral in his mother's grave. After his death, his widow, together with his eldest daughter returned to Britain. She adopted a reclusive lifestyle but made a name for herself by authoring several books before her death in 1851.
Thomas Gainsborough painted several family portraits, particularly of Sheridan's mother, Elizabeth; a lesser known painting of Sheridan was purchased by an American art collector in 1928.
According to the author of "Sheridan and his Times," no man was ever more universally admired than this Thomas Sheridam, and such was the charm and easy grace of his wit, that wherever he went he was hailed with delight.
Like his beautiful mother Elizabeth Sheridan, nicknamed Nightingale, Tom Sheridan died of tuberculosis in 1817, leaving his wife with four sons, three daughters, and a very modest pension. The poor widow was offered a “grace and favour” apartment at Hampton Court Palace because of the friendship of the Duke of York with Tom's father, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Died on the 12th Sept. at the Cape of Good Hope, Thos. Sheridan, esq. the only child of the late Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Miss Linley, his first wife. He was one of the pupils of the venerable Dr. Parr, from whose tuition he proceeded to Cambridge. For a short time he was in the army, held the office of muster-master-general in Ireland, and afterwards acted as aide-de-camp to Earl Moira, when commander-in-chief in Scotland. Though without fortune, or hopes of fortune, he was not governed by any sordid impulse in chusing a wife, and selected Miss Callender, whose virtues and good sense were her only treasures. He had long suffered under declining health, and had removed to various places in the expectation of benefit from change of air, when the present ministry conferred on him the appointment of Colonial Paymaster at the Cape of Good Hope, the duties of which situation were very slight, and the emoluments about 1000l. a year. Though the state of his health prevented his sharing in the luxuries of the table, yet his convivial faculties were as popular at the Cape as those of his father in England. He was a good scholar; as a companion, animated, good humoured, and full of anecdote; and possessed talents which, with better health, and more fortunate choice of political connections , would scarcely have failed to raise him to high distinction. His wife and several children survive.
In 1806, Thomas Sheridan was in Scotland, in the capacity of aide-de-camp to Lord Moira, and he there married a daughter of Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Callender of Cragiforth.
Thomas was a poet of some merit. He became colonial treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope. His wife, Caroline Henrietta, née Callander (1779-1851), wrote three novels, which had some success at the time. She received, after her husband's death, quarters at Hampton Court, and is described by Fanny Kemble as more beautiful than anybody but her daughters. The eldest child, HELEN SELINA (1807-1867), married Commander Price Blackwood, afterwards Baron Dufferin. Her husband died in 1841, and in 1862 she consented to a ceremony of marriage with George Hay, Earl of Gifford, who died a month later. Her Songs, Poems and Verses (1894) were published, with a memoir, by her son, the marquess of Dufferin. The second daughter, CAROLINE, became Mrs. Norton. The youngest, JANE GEORGINA, married Edward Adolphus Seymour, afterwards 12th duke of Somerset.
PLUNKETT CONNECTION TO CAROLINE HENRIETTA CALLANDER SHERIDAN on CRACROFT's PEERAGE
The clues Dr Sheridan left in names of this children pointed to Caroline Henrietta Callander, wife of Thomas Linley Sheridan, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
He was sent to boarding school in Hatton, Warwickshire in early 1786, where he was educated by Samuel Parr. Parr described him as having "great acuteness, excellent understanding, wit and humour, but not a particle of knowledge." The English historian William Smyth was engaged as his tutor after the death of Sheridan's mother in 1792. According to Smyth, Sheridan was the "idol of the young men" when at college in Cambridge and his fellow students thought him "the cleverest fellow in the place", although Smyth added his own rider clarifying that in humour and fun this was the case.
Sheridan married Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth (1779–1851), a daughter of Sir James Campbell, on 21 June 1805. Sheridan's father was initially against the marriage, and threatened to sever financial support to his son; Caroline did have a small inheritance but it was insufficient to fully support the couple. They had six or seven children. Their eldest son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was appointed as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838 and pursued a political career. The couple's daughters included Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye; the feminist Caroline Norton; and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.
Career
Sheridan unsuccessfully tried for a political career, firstly being involved in political shenanigans with his father to gain the Liskeard seat in 1804. He failed to be elected at Stafford in 1806 and 1807. He briefly served in the army in 1803 under Lord Moira as aide-de-camp then in Ireland where he served as a muster-master general in 1806. That year, his father gifted him a 25 per cent share of the Drury Lane Theatre where Sheridan became the manager. He also undertook managerial duties at the Lyceum Theatre, London while still managing the Theatre Royal. He wrote poetry, plays and melodramas, including Description of Characters in 1808 and The Russian, which was staged for 11 performances at Drury Lane from 13 May 1813. According to the tenor Michael Kelly, a leading figure in British musical theatre, Sheridan had "a good voice, and a true taste for music". Sheridan's verse about the loss of the frigate, Saldanha, on the coastline of Ireland on 4 December 1811, was described by Captain Jesse in the biography The Life of George Brummell as having more originality than any of Sheridan's father's poems.
A manuscript for the play The Siege of St Quintin staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in November 1808 demonstrates the working methods used by Sheridan and his father while managing the theatre. Drafts were read through and checked by Sheridan senior, further revised by the son and then transcribed.
While carrying out his army service under Lord Moira in Edinburgh, Sheridan was intimately involved with the wife of Peter Campbell, a wealthy businessman whose work had taken him to the West Indies. The affair led to the break up of the Campbell's marriage and in 1807, Sheridan was convicted of criminal conversation over it. Campbell was awarded £1,500 compensation, which Sheridan paid with money loaned by actors from the Drury Lane Theatre.
Like many of his relatives, including his mother and aunt, Sheridan was afflicted with tuberculosis and he moved abroad with his wife and eldest daughter to ease the symptoms; he was appointed as the Colonial Governor's treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1813 as a result of his father's influence with the Duke of York.
Legacy and death
Four years after taking up his appointment at the Cape of Good Hope, Sheridan died of tuberculosis on 12 September 1817; his body was transported back to Britain and buried at Wells Cathedral in his mother's grave. After his death, his widow, together with his eldest daughter returned to Britain. She adopted a reclusive lifestyle but made a name for herself by authoring several books before her death in 1851.
Thomas Gainsborough painted several family portraits, particularly of Sheridan's mother, Elizabeth; a lesser known painting of Sheridan was purchased by an American art collector in 1928.
According to the author of "Sheridan and his Times," no man was ever more universally admired than this Thomas Sheridam, and such was the charm and easy grace of his wit, that wherever he went he was hailed with delight.
Like his beautiful mother Elizabeth Sheridan, nicknamed Nightingale, Tom Sheridan died of tuberculosis in 1817, leaving his wife with four sons, three daughters, and a very modest pension. The poor widow was offered a “grace and favour” apartment at Hampton Court Palace because of the friendship of the Duke of York with Tom's father, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Died on the 12th Sept. at the Cape of Good Hope, Thos. Sheridan, esq. the only child of the late Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Miss Linley, his first wife. He was one of the pupils of the venerable Dr. Parr, from whose tuition he proceeded to Cambridge. For a short time he was in the army, held the office of muster-master-general in Ireland, and afterwards acted as aide-de-camp to Earl Moira, when commander-in-chief in Scotland. Though without fortune, or hopes of fortune, he was not governed by any sordid impulse in chusing a wife, and selected Miss Callender, whose virtues and good sense were her only treasures. He had long suffered under declining health, and had removed to various places in the expectation of benefit from change of air, when the present ministry conferred on him the appointment of Colonial Paymaster at the Cape of Good Hope, the duties of which situation were very slight, and the emoluments about 1000l. a year. Though the state of his health prevented his sharing in the luxuries of the table, yet his convivial faculties were as popular at the Cape as those of his father in England. He was a good scholar; as a companion, animated, good humoured, and full of anecdote; and possessed talents which, with better health, and more fortunate choice of political connections , would scarcely have failed to raise him to high distinction. His wife and several children survive.
In 1806, Thomas Sheridan was in Scotland, in the capacity of aide-de-camp to Lord Moira, and he there married a daughter of Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Callender of Cragiforth.
Thomas was a poet of some merit. He became colonial treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope. His wife, Caroline Henrietta, née Callander (1779-1851), wrote three novels, which had some success at the time. She received, after her husband's death, quarters at Hampton Court, and is described by Fanny Kemble as more beautiful than anybody but her daughters. The eldest child, HELEN SELINA (1807-1867), married Commander Price Blackwood, afterwards Baron Dufferin. Her husband died in 1841, and in 1862 she consented to a ceremony of marriage with George Hay, Earl of Gifford, who died a month later. Her Songs, Poems and Verses (1894) were published, with a memoir, by her son, the marquess of Dufferin. The second daughter, CAROLINE, became Mrs. Norton. The youngest, JANE GEORGINA, married Edward Adolphus Seymour, afterwards 12th duke of Somerset.
PLUNKETT CONNECTION TO CAROLINE HENRIETTA CALLANDER SHERIDAN on CRACROFT's PEERAGE
The clues Dr Sheridan left in names of this children pointed to Caroline Henrietta Callander, wife of Thomas Linley Sheridan, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Thomas initially tried for a career in politics but was unsuccessful. He was an "only child", his mother having several miscarriages before Sheridan was born in mid-November 1775. She named him after Thomas Linley, and Thomas Sheridan, his maternal and paternal grandfathers respectively.
He was sent to boarding school in Hatton, Warwickshire in early 1786, where he was educated by Samuel Parr. Parr described him as having "great acuteness, excellent understanding, wit and humour, but not a particle of knowledge." The English historian William Smyth was engaged as his tutor after the death of Sheridan's mother in 1792. According to Smyth, Sheridan was the "idol of the young men" when at college in Cambridge and his fellow students thought him "the cleverest fellow in the place", although Smyth added his own rider clarifying that in humour and fun this was the case.
Sheridan married Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth (1779–1851), a daughter of Sir James Campbell, on 21 June 1805. Sheridan's father was initially against the marriage, and threatened to sever financial support to his son; Caroline did have a small inheritance but it was insufficient to fully support the couple. They had six or seven children. Their eldest son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was appointed as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838 and pursued a political career. The couple's daughters included Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye; the feminist Caroline Norton; and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.
Career
Sheridan unsuccessfully tried for a political career, firstly being involved in political shenanigans with his father to gain the Liskeard seat in 1804. He failed to be elected at Stafford in 1806 and 1807. He briefly served in the army in 1803 under Lord Moira as aide-de-camp then in Ireland where he served as a muster-master general in 1806. That year, his father gifted him a 25 per cent share of the Drury Lane Theatre where Sheridan became the manager. He also undertook managerial duties at the Lyceum Theatre, London while still managing the Theatre Royal. He wrote poetry, plays and melodramas, including Description of Characters in 1808 and The Russian, which was staged for 11 performances at Drury Lane from 13 May 1813. According to the tenor Michael Kelly, a leading figure in British musical theatre, Sheridan had "a good voice, and a true taste for music". Sheridan's verse about the loss of the frigate, Saldanha, on the coastline of Ireland on 4 December 1811, was described by Captain Jesse in the biography The Life of George Brummell as having more originality than any of Sheridan's father's poems.
A manuscript for the play The Siege of St Quintin staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in November 1808 demonstrates the working methods used by Sheridan and his father while managing the theatre. Drafts were read through and checked by Sheridan senior, further revised by the son and then transcribed.
While carrying out his army service under Lord Moira in Edinburgh, Sheridan was intimately involved with the wife of Peter Campbell, a wealthy businessman whose work had taken him to the West Indies. The affair led to the break up of the Campbell's marriage and in 1807, Sheridan was convicted of criminal conversation over it. Campbell was awarded £1,500 compensation, which Sheridan paid with money loaned by actors from the Drury Lane Theatre.
Like many of his relatives, including his mother and aunt, Sheridan was afflicted with tuberculosis and he moved abroad with his wife and eldest daughter to ease the symptoms; he was appointed as the Colonial Governor's treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1813 as a result of his father's influence with the Duke of York.
Legacy and death
Four years after taking up his appointment at the Cape of Good Hope, Sheridan died of tuberculosis on 12 September 1817; his body was transported back to Britain and buried at Wells Cathedral in his mother's grave. After his death, his widow, together with his eldest daughter returned to Britain. She adopted a reclusive lifestyle but made a name for herself by authoring several books before her death in 1851.
Thomas Gainsborough painted several family portraits, particularly of Sheridan's mother, Elizabeth; a lesser known painting of Sheridan was purchased by an American art collector in 1928.
According to the author of "Sheridan and his Times," no man was ever more universally admired than this Thomas Sheridam, and such was the charm and easy grace of his wit, that wherever he went he was hailed with delight.
Like his beautiful mother Elizabeth Sheridan, nicknamed Nightingale, Tom Sheridan died of tuberculosis in 1817, leaving his wife with four sons, three daughters, and a very modest pension. The poor widow was offered a “grace and favour” apartment at Hampton Court Palace because of the friendship of the Duke of York with Tom's father, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Died on the 12th Sept. at the Cape of Good Hope, Thos. Sheridan, esq. the only child of the late Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Miss Linley, his first wife. He was one of the pupils of the venerable Dr. Parr, from whose tuition he proceeded to Cambridge. For a short time he was in the army, held the office of muster-master-general in Ireland, and afterwards acted as aide-de-camp to Earl Moira, when commander-in-chief in Scotland. Though without fortune, or hopes of fortune, he was not governed by any sordid impulse in chusing a wife, and selected Miss Callender, whose virtues and good sense were her only treasures. He had long suffered under declining health, and had removed to various places in the expectation of benefit from change of air, when the present ministry conferred on him the appointment of Colonial Paymaster at the Cape of Good Hope, the duties of which situation were very slight, and the emoluments about 1000l. a year. Though the state of his health prevented his sharing in the luxuries of the table, yet his convivial faculties were as popular at the Cape as those of his father in England. He was a good scholar; as a companion, animated, good humoured, and full of anecdote; and possessed talents which, with better health, and more fortunate choice of political connections , would scarcely have failed to raise him to high distinction. His wife and several children survive.
In 1806, Thomas Sheridan was in Scotland, in the capacity of aide-de-camp to Lord Moira, and he there married a daughter of Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Callender of Cragiforth.
Thomas was a poet of some merit. He became colonial treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope. His wife, Caroline Henrietta, née Callander (1779-1851), wrote three novels, which had some success at the time. She received, after her husband's death, quarters at Hampton Court, and is described by Fanny Kemble as more beautiful than anybody but her daughters. The eldest child, HELEN SELINA (1807-1867), married Commander Price Blackwood, afterwards Baron Dufferin. Her husband died in 1841, and in 1862 she consented to a ceremony of marriage with George Hay, Earl of Gifford, who died a month later. Her Songs, Poems and Verses (1894) were published, with a memoir, by her son, the marquess of Dufferin. The second daughter, CAROLINE, became Mrs. Norton. The youngest, JANE GEORGINA, married Edward Adolphus Seymour, afterwards 12th duke of Somerset.
PLUNKETT CONNECTION TO CAROLINE HENRIETTA CALLANDER SHERIDAN on CRACROFT's PEERAGE
The clues Dr Sheridan left in names of this children pointed to Caroline Henrietta Callander, wife of Thomas Linley Sheridan, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
He was sent to boarding school in Hatton, Warwickshire in early 1786, where he was educated by Samuel Parr. Parr described him as having "great acuteness, excellent understanding, wit and humour, but not a particle of knowledge." The English historian William Smyth was engaged as his tutor after the death of Sheridan's mother in 1792. According to Smyth, Sheridan was the "idol of the young men" when at college in Cambridge and his fellow students thought him "the cleverest fellow in the place", although Smyth added his own rider clarifying that in humour and fun this was the case.
Sheridan married Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth (1779–1851), a daughter of Sir James Campbell, on 21 June 1805. Sheridan's father was initially against the marriage, and threatened to sever financial support to his son; Caroline did have a small inheritance but it was insufficient to fully support the couple. They had six or seven children. Their eldest son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was appointed as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838 and pursued a political career. The couple's daughters included Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye; the feminist Caroline Norton; and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset.
Career
Sheridan unsuccessfully tried for a political career, firstly being involved in political shenanigans with his father to gain the Liskeard seat in 1804. He failed to be elected at Stafford in 1806 and 1807. He briefly served in the army in 1803 under Lord Moira as aide-de-camp then in Ireland where he served as a muster-master general in 1806. That year, his father gifted him a 25 per cent share of the Drury Lane Theatre where Sheridan became the manager. He also undertook managerial duties at the Lyceum Theatre, London while still managing the Theatre Royal. He wrote poetry, plays and melodramas, including Description of Characters in 1808 and The Russian, which was staged for 11 performances at Drury Lane from 13 May 1813. According to the tenor Michael Kelly, a leading figure in British musical theatre, Sheridan had "a good voice, and a true taste for music". Sheridan's verse about the loss of the frigate, Saldanha, on the coastline of Ireland on 4 December 1811, was described by Captain Jesse in the biography The Life of George Brummell as having more originality than any of Sheridan's father's poems.
A manuscript for the play The Siege of St Quintin staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in November 1808 demonstrates the working methods used by Sheridan and his father while managing the theatre. Drafts were read through and checked by Sheridan senior, further revised by the son and then transcribed.
While carrying out his army service under Lord Moira in Edinburgh, Sheridan was intimately involved with the wife of Peter Campbell, a wealthy businessman whose work had taken him to the West Indies. The affair led to the break up of the Campbell's marriage and in 1807, Sheridan was convicted of criminal conversation over it. Campbell was awarded £1,500 compensation, which Sheridan paid with money loaned by actors from the Drury Lane Theatre.
Like many of his relatives, including his mother and aunt, Sheridan was afflicted with tuberculosis and he moved abroad with his wife and eldest daughter to ease the symptoms; he was appointed as the Colonial Governor's treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1813 as a result of his father's influence with the Duke of York.
Legacy and death
Four years after taking up his appointment at the Cape of Good Hope, Sheridan died of tuberculosis on 12 September 1817; his body was transported back to Britain and buried at Wells Cathedral in his mother's grave. After his death, his widow, together with his eldest daughter returned to Britain. She adopted a reclusive lifestyle but made a name for herself by authoring several books before her death in 1851.
Thomas Gainsborough painted several family portraits, particularly of Sheridan's mother, Elizabeth; a lesser known painting of Sheridan was purchased by an American art collector in 1928.
According to the author of "Sheridan and his Times," no man was ever more universally admired than this Thomas Sheridam, and such was the charm and easy grace of his wit, that wherever he went he was hailed with delight.
Like his beautiful mother Elizabeth Sheridan, nicknamed Nightingale, Tom Sheridan died of tuberculosis in 1817, leaving his wife with four sons, three daughters, and a very modest pension. The poor widow was offered a “grace and favour” apartment at Hampton Court Palace because of the friendship of the Duke of York with Tom's father, Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Thomas Sheridan, Esq.
Died on the 12th Sept. at the Cape of Good Hope, Thos. Sheridan, esq. the only child of the late Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Miss Linley, his first wife. He was one of the pupils of the venerable Dr. Parr, from whose tuition he proceeded to Cambridge. For a short time he was in the army, held the office of muster-master-general in Ireland, and afterwards acted as aide-de-camp to Earl Moira, when commander-in-chief in Scotland. Though without fortune, or hopes of fortune, he was not governed by any sordid impulse in chusing a wife, and selected Miss Callender, whose virtues and good sense were her only treasures. He had long suffered under declining health, and had removed to various places in the expectation of benefit from change of air, when the present ministry conferred on him the appointment of Colonial Paymaster at the Cape of Good Hope, the duties of which situation were very slight, and the emoluments about 1000l. a year. Though the state of his health prevented his sharing in the luxuries of the table, yet his convivial faculties were as popular at the Cape as those of his father in England. He was a good scholar; as a companion, animated, good humoured, and full of anecdote; and possessed talents which, with better health, and more fortunate choice of political connections , would scarcely have failed to raise him to high distinction. His wife and several children survive.
In 1806, Thomas Sheridan was in Scotland, in the capacity of aide-de-camp to Lord Moira, and he there married a daughter of Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Callender of Cragiforth.
Thomas was a poet of some merit. He became colonial treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope. His wife, Caroline Henrietta, née Callander (1779-1851), wrote three novels, which had some success at the time. She received, after her husband's death, quarters at Hampton Court, and is described by Fanny Kemble as more beautiful than anybody but her daughters. The eldest child, HELEN SELINA (1807-1867), married Commander Price Blackwood, afterwards Baron Dufferin. Her husband died in 1841, and in 1862 she consented to a ceremony of marriage with George Hay, Earl of Gifford, who died a month later. Her Songs, Poems and Verses (1894) were published, with a memoir, by her son, the marquess of Dufferin. The second daughter, CAROLINE, became Mrs. Norton. The youngest, JANE GEORGINA, married Edward Adolphus Seymour, afterwards 12th duke of Somerset.
PLUNKETT CONNECTION TO CAROLINE HENRIETTA CALLANDER SHERIDAN on CRACROFT's PEERAGE
The clues Dr Sheridan left in names of this children pointed to Caroline Henrietta Callander, wife of Thomas Linley Sheridan, son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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He is buried in his mother's grave.
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