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Recording this tablet, the latest Sheridan biography * says it is 
in St. Paul’s, Bloomsbury, a place no one could find, Bloomsbury 
for such a purpose having as much to do with Covent Garden as 
it has with Bath. 
Osias, Jane, and William survived, and of these William the 
last died in 1835. By his willt dated 1832 William left his 
property to be divided equally between his nieces Elizabeth Ann 
Tickell and Mary Esther Ward, but as Mary Esther predeceased 
him, by a codicil he left all to Elizabeth. Besides his farm and 
lands called Oldbury in Didmarton and his share in Drury Lane 
theatre he bequeathed to her his leasehold house in Fountain 
Buildings, Bath (it was No. ro)t and his share in St. Margaret’s 
chapel, Bath. He bequeathed also to her the portrait of himself, 
seen now in full manhood, by Lonsdale. An engraving of this 
forms the frontispiece to his “ Eight Glees,” published about 1830. 
Other family portraits, including his father “in a white coat,” by 
Gainsborough, he bequeathed to Dulwich College, where, as above 
noted, they now are. His tablet in St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, 
records him as the last of this family of genius. 
* Rae, Vol. 2, p. 8. + Gloster 369. } ‘‘ British Directory.” 
