• Name: Knowles, James Sheridan
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 12  May  1784
• Death Date: 30  November  1862
• Occupation: playwright

See for a full discussion the entry for John Knowles who accounts for most of the Knowles entries in the diary.

Those which we believe relate to James Sheridan Knowles are restricted to entries after 1828.

The DNB suggests that James Sheridan Knowles was not well-known and settled in London until the 1820s - before that he was studying medicine in Aberdeen, involved in Irish and provincial theatre etc. From 1828 G occasionally distinguishes S/Shn/Sheridan Knowles, but the great majority of entries to Knowles come before 1820 and do not have an initial. This suggests that it is the later Sheridan Knowles entries that are being distinguished so as not to be confused with the more longstanding John Knowles entries. This gives over two hundred entries for John Knowles and only seven for Sheridan:
9.1.1828 'Dine at Kenney's, w. Sheridan Knowles....'
On the 25th of the same month, 'meet S Knowles'
23.12.1831 'Meet 'Sh.n Knowles'
30.3.1832 'S Knowles calls'
8.4.1832 'Call on S Knowles n (adv. pere and 2)
26.4.1832 'meet Sheridan Knowles'
6.11.1835 'Meet Sheridan Knowles'

15.10.1827 'Knowles senr' appears as a theatre adv, appears in the same context 1.5.1832 and 10.4.1833: this cannot be John Knowles's father (also John, shipwright, d. 1814) but has been coded as James Sheridan Knowles's father James Knowles (1759-1840), schoolmaster and lexicographer.

• DNB

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.