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ley, the Sheridan, " Orator, dramatist, minister who ran Through each mode of the lyre and was master of all." 4. Tom Sheridan, wit and poet, and his brother Charles. 5. Mrs. Norton and her sisters. 6. Lord Dufferin, nephew of Mrs. Norton. --Surely no family can trace such an unbroken line of genius and talent as this. The great Sheridan — dramatist, orator, wit, and bon-vivant--was pronounced an "impenetrable dunce" at school — his teacher being that insufferable and bearish pedant, Dr. Parr. In 1773 he married; produced "The Rivals" and the opera of "The Duenna" in 1775; "The School for Scandal" in 1777; purchased Garrick's Drury Lane Theatre in 1776; wrote "The Critic" in 1779; entered Parliament 1781; became Under Secretary of State, under the short lived Rockingham Administration, in 1782; moved the Rude charge against Warren Hastings February, 1787; summed up the Begum charge in a five hours speech April, 1789; married his second wife in 1795; Treasurer of the Navy 1806 d