Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Pitt the Younger’s Tory government. Sheridan joined the Whig fraternity with Fox and William Windham (1750-1810) and Edmund Burke, Dublin-born like him (1729-1797). Sheridan’s sociability (he was smiled on by royalty, being a close friend, in … we are all in the wrong’. Facing them are two wigless Whigs, one is probably Windham, and, in the background, a wigless Edmund Burke turns his back to them as if criticizing their political support to the French Revolution. 5 . See Richard …
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