Bonduca
was played at Covent Garden in May, 1808. He married, in 1805, Caroline Henrietta Callender, who was "more beautiful than anybody but her daughters," afterwards Mrs. Norton, the Duchess of Somerset, and Lady Dufferin. He died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1817. "Tom Sheridan and his beautiful wife" were at Gibraltar in 1809, when Byron and Hobhouse landed on the Rock, and, as Galt states (
Life of Byron
, p. 58), brought the news to Lady Westmorland of their arrival. (See
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
, lines 572, 573, and
note
1.)