Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet (born 1751)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and politician (1751–1816)

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he…