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"Sheridan Morley was born on Dec. 5, 1941, the day his father opened as Sheridan Whiteside, the grotesquely self-absorbed critic, based on Alexander Woolcott, in the West End production of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” It was this, along with Robert Morley’s admiration for the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan, that explained his unconventional first name, which Mr. Morley preferred to hear reduced to Sherry." This, from the NY Times; father was Robert Morley and Sheridan wrote biographies of theatre celebs and broadcast on BBC and ITV. So, definitely all male! But, the way the world is going, it wouldn't be excessively odd to meet a woman named Reginald Clive Tobias ...

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