A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 13, by Philip H. Highfill:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's son Charles Brinsley Sheridan wrote to his half-brother Tom at the Cape of Good Hope on July 16, 1816 that "you will be soothed by learning that our father's death was unaccompanied by suffering, that he almost slumbered into death, and that the report which you may have heard in the newspapers of the privations and the want of comforts which he endured are unfounded; that he had every attention and comfort that could make a deathbed easy."
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College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1815
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Mar. 13, 1815. [2nd] s. of Richard Brinsley [the dramatist] (by his 2nd wife, Hester Jane Ogle, dau. of the Dean of Winchester). B. in London. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1815. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Aug. 21, 1816. Inherited a large fortune from his mother. For many years shared a house with his niece, Caroline Norton, after her separation from her husband. Died Nov. 29, 1843, at his house in Bolton Street, Piccadilly, aged 47. Half-brother of Thomas (1795). (Alice Acland, Caroline Norton; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1844, I. 105.)
SONGS, POEMS, AND VERSES
BY
Helen, Lady Dufferin (COUNTESS OF GIFFORD)
Edited, with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan Family, by her Son
THE MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA
WITH PORTRAIT
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1894
DEC 16 1956
Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh
I remember Charles very well, for he did not die till 1843. In his youth he showed great promise, but a brain fever must have injuriously affected his intellectual powers; for, though extremely amiable, he had none of the brilliancy of those who had gone before him. He interested himself, however, in Greek affairs, and in 1824 he published a volume on the Greek Revolution, and in the following year a translation in verse of the Songs of Greece from the Romaic text.
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In his will made on June 25, 1823 and proved at London on January 12, 1844, Charles Brinsley Sheridan left his real estate to Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, widow of his brother Thomas, which included the stately home at Polesden Lacy, part of the considerable estate left to him by his mother; to Thomas' children he left the residue of his estate.
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The Polesden estate was bought by Arthur Moore in 1723. It was sold on the death of William Moore in 1746, and purchased by Captain (later Admiral) Francis Geary. His son sold it to the trustees of Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP in 1797. Sheridan died in 1816, and his son Charles sold Polesden in 1818 to Joseph Bonsor. The mansion house, built in 1631 was by now ruined, and Bonsor had it rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's son Charles Brinsley Sheridan wrote to his half-brother Tom at the Cape of Good Hope on July 16, 1816 that "you will be soothed by learning that our father's death was unaccompanied by suffering, that he almost slumbered into death, and that the report which you may have heard in the newspapers of the privations and the want of comforts which he endured are unfounded; that he had every attention and comfort that could make a deathbed easy."
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College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1815
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Mar. 13, 1815. [2nd] s. of Richard Brinsley [the dramatist] (by his 2nd wife, Hester Jane Ogle, dau. of the Dean of Winchester). B. in London. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1815. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Aug. 21, 1816. Inherited a large fortune from his mother. For many years shared a house with his niece, Caroline Norton, after her separation from her husband. Died Nov. 29, 1843, at his house in Bolton Street, Piccadilly, aged 47. Half-brother of Thomas (1795). (Alice Acland, Caroline Norton; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1844, I. 105.)
SONGS, POEMS, AND VERSES
BY
Helen, Lady Dufferin (COUNTESS OF GIFFORD)
Edited, with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan Family, by her Son
THE MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA
WITH PORTRAIT
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1894
DEC 16 1956
Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh
I remember Charles very well, for he did not die till 1843. In his youth he showed great promise, but a brain fever must have injuriously affected his intellectual powers; for, though extremely amiable, he had none of the brilliancy of those who had gone before him. He interested himself, however, in Greek affairs, and in 1824 he published a volume on the Greek Revolution, and in the following year a translation in verse of the Songs of Greece from the Romaic text.
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In his will made on June 25, 1823 and proved at London on January 12, 1844, Charles Brinsley Sheridan left his real estate to Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, widow of his brother Thomas, which included the stately home at Polesden Lacy, part of the considerable estate left to him by his mother; to Thomas' children he left the residue of his estate.
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The Polesden estate was bought by Arthur Moore in 1723. It was sold on the death of William Moore in 1746, and purchased by Captain (later Admiral) Francis Geary. His son sold it to the trustees of Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP in 1797. Sheridan died in 1816, and his son Charles sold Polesden in 1818 to Joseph Bonsor. The mansion house, built in 1631 was by now ruined, and Bonsor had it rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 13, by Philip H. Highfill:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's son Charles Brinsley Sheridan wrote to his half-brother Tom at the Cape of Good Hope on July 16, 1816 that "you will be soothed by learning that our father's death was unaccompanied by suffering, that he almost slumbered into death, and that the report which you may have heard in the newspapers of the privations and the want of comforts which he endured are unfounded; that he had every attention and comfort that could make a deathbed easy."
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College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1815
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Mar. 13, 1815. [2nd] s. of Richard Brinsley [the dramatist] (by his 2nd wife, Hester Jane Ogle, dau. of the Dean of Winchester). B. in London. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1815. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Aug. 21, 1816. Inherited a large fortune from his mother. For many years shared a house with his niece, Caroline Norton, after her separation from her husband. Died Nov. 29, 1843, at his house in Bolton Street, Piccadilly, aged 47. Half-brother of Thomas (1795). (Alice Acland, Caroline Norton; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1844, I. 105.)
SONGS, POEMS, AND VERSES
BY
Helen, Lady Dufferin (COUNTESS OF GIFFORD)
Edited, with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan Family, by her Son
THE MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA
WITH PORTRAIT
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1894
DEC 16 1956
Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh
I remember Charles very well, for he did not die till 1843. In his youth he showed great promise, but a brain fever must have injuriously affected his intellectual powers; for, though extremely amiable, he had none of the brilliancy of those who had gone before him. He interested himself, however, in Greek affairs, and in 1824 he published a volume on the Greek Revolution, and in the following year a translation in verse of the Songs of Greece from the Romaic text.
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In his will made on June 25, 1823 and proved at London on January 12, 1844, Charles Brinsley Sheridan left his real estate to Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, widow of his brother Thomas, which included the stately home at Polesden Lacy, part of the considerable estate left to him by his mother; to Thomas' children he left the residue of his estate.
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The Polesden estate was bought by Arthur Moore in 1723. It was sold on the death of William Moore in 1746, and purchased by Captain (later Admiral) Francis Geary. His son sold it to the trustees of Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP in 1797. Sheridan died in 1816, and his son Charles sold Polesden in 1818 to Joseph Bonsor. The mansion house, built in 1631 was by now ruined, and Bonsor had it rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's son Charles Brinsley Sheridan wrote to his half-brother Tom at the Cape of Good Hope on July 16, 1816 that "you will be soothed by learning that our father's death was unaccompanied by suffering, that he almost slumbered into death, and that the report which you may have heard in the newspapers of the privations and the want of comforts which he endured are unfounded; that he had every attention and comfort that could make a deathbed easy."
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College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1815
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, Mar. 13, 1815. [2nd] s. of Richard Brinsley [the dramatist] (by his 2nd wife, Hester Jane Ogle, dau. of the Dean of Winchester). B. in London. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1815. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Aug. 21, 1816. Inherited a large fortune from his mother. For many years shared a house with his niece, Caroline Norton, after her separation from her husband. Died Nov. 29, 1843, at his house in Bolton Street, Piccadilly, aged 47. Half-brother of Thomas (1795). (Alice Acland, Caroline Norton; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1844, I. 105.)
SONGS, POEMS, AND VERSES
BY
Helen, Lady Dufferin (COUNTESS OF GIFFORD)
Edited, with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan Family, by her Son
THE MARQUESS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA
WITH PORTRAIT
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1894
DEC 16 1956
Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh
I remember Charles very well, for he did not die till 1843. In his youth he showed great promise, but a brain fever must have injuriously affected his intellectual powers; for, though extremely amiable, he had none of the brilliancy of those who had gone before him. He interested himself, however, in Greek affairs, and in 1824 he published a volume on the Greek Revolution, and in the following year a translation in verse of the Songs of Greece from the Romaic text.
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In his will made on June 25, 1823 and proved at London on January 12, 1844, Charles Brinsley Sheridan left his real estate to Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, widow of his brother Thomas, which included the stately home at Polesden Lacy, part of the considerable estate left to him by his mother; to Thomas' children he left the residue of his estate.
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The Polesden estate was bought by Arthur Moore in 1723. It was sold on the death of William Moore in 1746, and purchased by Captain (later Admiral) Francis Geary. His son sold it to the trustees of Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP in 1797. Sheridan died in 1816, and his son Charles sold Polesden in 1818 to Joseph Bonsor. The mansion house, built in 1631 was by now ruined, and Bonsor had it rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt.
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