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In St Mary's Church, Frampton, Dorset.

IN MEMORY OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 17TH LANCERS SON OF
ALGERNON BRINSLEY & MARY LOTHROP SHERIDAN OF FRAMPTON COURT.
BORN AT KINGSTON RUSSELL HOUSE MAY 22ND 1874, KILLED IN ACTION AT
MODDERSFONTEIN NEAR TARKASTAD CAPE COLONY SEPTEMBER 17TH 1901.

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Lt R.B. Sheridan's grave.

Lieutenant Sheridan's parents commissioned luxury New Bond Street retailer Smythson to make this photographic memorial to their son.

Mounted with silver 17th Lancers badge and the officer's signature "Brin". Hinges with London hallmarks for 1901, and reverse of triptych blocked in gilt: "FRANK SMYTHSON, 133, NEW BOND ST. W."

I have sometimes wondered whether the central figure in Richard Caton Woodville's "All that was left of them" might have been based on Lieutenant Sheridan.









.Courtesy of Heritage Auctions



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