Frances Keith Sheridan (1812 – 14 January 1882) was a school mistress in South Australia, remembered for her association with bequests to the University of Adelaide.
[5] He secured a position as assistant to Francis Haire (c. 1812–1864), master of Albert House Academy, a boys' college in Angas Street, but may not have lasted long; he died around five years later.
[6] She opened a school at the family home "Keith House", 50 MacKinnon Parade, North Adelaide (corner of Provost Street), before 1857;[7] run by her daughters from around 1865.
Her younger daughter Violet Laura Sheridan ( – 28 June 1921) married the industrialist Alfred Muller Simpson on 23 August 1888, his second wife.
– 25 November 1922) lived all her adult life in "Keith House", the last twenty years or so alone with her dogs, shunning human company.