His great-great-grandmother Margaret (Godwin) Swift was the sister of Francis Godwin, author of The Man in the Moone which influenced parts of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The same grandmother's aunt Katherine (Throckmorton) Dryden was a first cousin of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh. His grandmother Elizabeth (Dryden) Swift was the niece of Sir Erasmus Dryden, grandfather of poet John Dryden. Swift's family had several interesting literary connections. The house in which Swift was born 1865 illustration His nurse returned him to his mother, still in Ireland, when he was three. He said that there he learned to read the Bible. Īt the age of one, child Jonathan was taken by his wet nurse to her hometown of Whitehaven, Cumberland, England. His mother returned to England after his birth, leaving him in the care of his uncle Godwin Swift (1628–1695), a close friend and confidant of Sir John Temple, whose son later employed Swift as his secretary. He died of syphilis, which he said he got from dirty sheets when out of town.
He died in Dublin about seven months before his namesake was born. Swift's father joined his elder brother, Godwin, in the practice of law in Ireland. Some time thereafter, Ericke and his family, including his young daughter Abigail, fled to Ireland. In 1634 the vicar was convicted of Puritan practices. His maternal grandfather, James Ericke, was the vicar of Thornton in Leicestershire. His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire, but he accompanied his brothers to Ireland to seek their fortunes in law after their Royalist father's estate was brought to ruin during the English Civil War. He was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (1640–1667) and his wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick) of Frisby on the Wreake. Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian". He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms-such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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