On 6 August 1677 Sheridan received an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and on 6 February 1679 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
He was imprisoned in 1680 for allegedly conspiring in the Popish Plot and on 15 December 1680 he gave evidence before the House of Commons but, as Parliament was dissolved shortly afterwards, was set free.
The Sheridan Papers (1702), (contained in Calendar of the Stuart papers)[8] and he also translated A Survey of Princes[9] by Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Sheridan died at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France in 1712.
[10] About June 1684 Sheridan married Helen Ravenscroft (née Appleby), widow of George Ravenscroft, the developer of English lead crystal,[11] and the daughter of Thomas Appleby and Helen Gascoigne of Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire.
There were three children of the marriage- Therese Helen, Mary and Sir Thomas Sheridan junior who became tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.