Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788

found: Thomas Sheridan's career and influence, 2011:data view (Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788); Irish stage actor, an educator, and a major proponent of the elocution movement; he received his M.A. in 1743 from Trinity College in Dublin; not only an actor, he also wrote The Brave Irishman or Captain O'Blunder, which premièred in 1738; he became the manager of the Dublin theatre sometime in the 1740s; Sheridan left his acting career, although he continued to manage theatre companies and occasionally play bit parts, and moved permanently to England with his family in 1758. There, his time was spent as a teacher)