Family Life
He was twice married. He and his first wife had two children:
- Thomas Sheridan, who married Caroline Henrietta Callander, daughter of Col. Sir James Campbell Callander, of Craigforth, Stirling, and Ardkinglas, and was the father of Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Norton and Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
- Edith Marcia Caroline Sheridan (d. 9 April 1876), m. 30 June 1864 to John Francis Thynne, of Haynes Park (17 June 1830 – 30 January 1910, Justice of Peace, of the Marquesses of Bath, and had issue. In 1795, Richard B. Sheridan married Hester Jane Ogle (1776–1817), daughter of the Dean of Winchester. They had at least one child: Charles Brinsley Sheridan (1796–1843)
At one time Sheridan owned Downe House, Richmond Hill in London.
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