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Sheridan, Thomas (1719–88), actor and orthoepist; edgy friendship with Garrick; united the Aungier Street and Smock Alley theatres in Dublin, taking over their united management (1745–54); successful actor in Dublin and London, acting at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; edited Swift and provided a biography of the author, his godfather (1784); increasingly tense relationship with his son, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, over personal relations and his management of Drury Lane: 199, 200, 205–6, 209 and n. a, 238, 305, 328, 345, 346, 398, 433 n. b, 434, 520, 583, 697, 727, 797, 814, 858, 877, 882, 885, 938,945
Sherlock, Dr William (1641?-!707), dean of St Paul’s: 657, 929 n. a, 936
Sherwin, John Keyse (i75i?-9o), designer and engraver; won the gold medal of the Royal Society for a historical picture (1772); historical engraver to the King (1785); talented but vain: 580
Shiels, Robert (d. 1753), compiler; Jacobite; one of the six amanuenses on S.J.’s Dictionary; principal compiler of Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift (5 vols., 1753); wrote several poems after the manner of James Thomson: 106–7, 133, 534 and n. a, 538, 583–4
Shipley, Dr Jonathan (1714–88), bishop of St Asaph (1770); Whig; latitudinarian; dean of Winchester and rector of Chilbolton, Hampshire (1760); bishop of Llandaff (1769); held in high favour by Rockingham and Shelburne; friend of S.J., Burke and Reynolds; member of the Literary Club: 252, 659, 898
Shuckford, Dr Samuel (d. 1754), prebendary of Canterbury: 936
Siam, king of; embassies from and to Lewis XIV: 705
Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641–1722), Scottish physician and antiquary: 646–7
Siddons, Mrs Sarah (1755–1831), actress; sister of John Philip Kemble; established her fame and popularity at Bath (1778–82) before moving to Sheridan’s Drury Lane; a cultural icon by the mid-1780s; the definitive Lady Macbeth; collaborated with James Boaden to produce Memoirs of Mrs Siddons (1827); the most famous actress of her era: 896
Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon (1622–83), political writer; defender of the regicide; servant of Cromwell; author of Court Maxims (1665-6) and Discourses Concerning Government (1681-3); executed for his treasonable association with Monmouth: 372
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–86), author and courtier; diplomat charged with negotiating a Protestant league; author of the sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, the critical Defence of Poetry and the epic romance Arcadia; died prematurely after a wound sustained in battle: 593
Simco, John (fl. 1786): 1000 n.c
Simpson, Charles (1732–96), town clerk of Lichfield: 971 n. a
Simpson, Joseph (1721-c. 1773), Lichfield friend of S.J.: 185–6, 256, 533
Simpson, Revd Mr (fl. 1766–78), of Lincoln: 268, 717
Simpson, Stephen (1700?-74), father of the above: 48
Simpson, Thomas (1710–61), mathematician; contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine (1736-8); author of the Doctrine and Application of Fluxions (1750) and Mathematical Dissertations (1743); prolific writer; assistant to the chief master of mathematics at the newly formed Royal Military Academy at Woolwich (1743–61): 187 n. b
Sinclair, Sir John (1754–1835), ist Baronet; agricultural improver, politician and codifier of ‘useful knowledge’; compiled the Statistical Account of Scotland (21 vols.); launched the British Wool Society (1791) and helped to establish the Board of Agriculture, becoming its president (until 1798); proposed a scheme to codify useful knowledge under the five heads of agriculture, health, political economy, finance and religion, publishing the Code of Health (4 vols., 1807) and the Code of Agriculture (1817): 840
‘Sixteen-string Jack’, see Rann, John
Skene, Sir John (1543?-1617), Lord Curriehill; clerk register and compiler of Regiam Majestatem: 747 n. a
Skinner, Stephen (1623–67), physician and philologist; treatises published posthumously