which Anglo-Irish satirist, was the friend of  Thomas Sheridan
Thomas Sheridan (divine) Thomas Sheridan (1687 – 10 October 1738) was an Anglican divine, essayist, playwright, poet, schoolmaster and translator. He is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Jonathan Swift.
Charles Cochrane (social reformer) Charles Cochrane (1807-1855) was an author, campaigner for the poor in London in the 'hungry 40s' and, in the last years of his life, campaigner against Sunday trading. Cochrane was born in Madras, the son of Basil Cochrane who himself was the sixth son of Scottish nobleman and politician Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald. 1830 saw the publication of Cochranes' "The Journal of a Tour Made by Senor Juan De Vega, the Spanish Minstrel of 1828-29" which recounted Cochrane's tour of Britain and Ireland disguised as a Spanish minstrel, 'exploiting somewhat belatedly the sympathy felt for Spanish refugees after the French invasion of 1823'. Cochrane's "Spanish Minstrel" was satirised by Henry Mayhew in his one act play "The Wandering Minstrel".