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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1751 - 1816

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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) 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 wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777), along with serving as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Brinsley Sheridan has received more than 672,152 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the 9,900th most popular politician (down from 8,986th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 106th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Richard Brinsley Sheridan ranks 9,900 out of 15,577. Before him are Manuel Blanco Encalada, Pak Song-chol, Johann Schneider-Ammann, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, and Nicéphore Soglo. After him are Alfredo Palacio, Adam Malik, Jacques Laffitte, Anwar Ibrahim, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, and Paul van Zeeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1751, Richard Brinsley Sheridan ranks 20. Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Clement Mary Hofbauer, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, George Shaw, Julie Billiart, and Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto. After him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Anders Dahl, Uesugi Harunori, Johann Heinrich Voss, Corona Schröter, and Johan Henric Kellgren. Among people deceased in 1816, Richard Brinsley Sheridan ranks 19. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, François-André Vincent, Julie Billiart, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, and Constantine Ypsilantis. After him are Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Edward Charles Howard, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Dorothea Jordan, and Christian Konrad Sprengel.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Brinsley Sheridan ranks 110 out of 501. Before him are John Ellis (1710), Grace O'Malley (1530), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Edward Bruce (1275), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), and John Flanagan (1873). After him are Jim Sheridan (1949), Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), John Banville (1945), and Richard Kirwan (1733).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Richard Brinsley Sheridan ranks 19. Before him are Mary Robinson (1944), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Eliza Lynch (1833), Constantine III of Scotland (971), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), and Edward Bruce (1275). After him are Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Arthur Griffith (1871), John Boland (1870), and Douglas Hyde (1860).

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