Knowles, Sheridan, dramatist, born at Cork; was connected with the stage first as actor and then as an author of plays, which include “Virginius,” “The Hunchback,” and “The Wife”; latterly he gave up the stage, and took to preaching in connection with the Baptist body (1784‒1862).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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