Richard Brinsley Sheridan (c. 1806, London – 2 May 1888) was an English Whig politician.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the eldest son of Thomas Sheridan, colonial treasurer in the Cape of Good Hope and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craigforth, and grandson of his namesake the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. After his father died in 1817, his mother travelled to live in London with her seven children.
He served as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Shaftesbury from 1845 to 1852, and for Dorchester from 1852 until he retired in 1868, and also Deputy Lieutenant for Dorset. He was a Liberal in favour of extending the right to vote. He married Marcia Maria Grant on 18 May 1835, and they had three daughters and six sons, including Thomas Algernon Brinsley Sheridan, another Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
Famous quotes containing the words richard, brinsley and/or sheridan:
“For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
“Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don’t put me in a phrenzy.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)