Jonathon+Swift

 __ Jonathan Swift __ __ Early life __ Jonathon Swift was born in Dublin on 30th November 1667. His dad had died before his birth. He was born of English parents Jonathon and Abigail. His grandfather, Thomas Swift, is a famous royalist Irish curch Minister. Before his first birthday, he was taken to Cumberland from Dublin. He did not see his mother again until 1689. Swift's uncle, Godwin Swift payed for his education. He was educated at Kilenny grammar school and Trinity college in Dublin. Swift was a rule breaker and eventually was removed from his college course. After this, he went to work at Sheen in Surrey. He lived with Sir William Temple. Temple's father, Sir John had been a guest in the Swift household previously. He left the Temple household a few years later, in 1694, to return to Ireland where, a year later, he was made the priest in the Church of Ireland. However, Swift quickly became depressed and in 1696, just two years after he left the Temples, he returned to them. He was back in Ireland between the years of 1709 and 1710, and he was assigned by Irish Bishops to stay in London for the remission of taxes income to the church of Ireland. He left Ireland for London on 7th of September 1710. It was here where he spent the next three years writing his Journal to Stella, a series of intamite letters to Esther Johnson and her campanion, Rebecca Dingley.

 **__His works __**

His most renowned and memorable woks are: A Tale of a Tub (1704) Gulliver's travels (1726) A Modest Proposal (1729)

Other novels he wrote inclue: The Battle of the Books (1697) and Journal to Stella(1710-1713). He also wrote several poems including description of a City Shower (1708/09) Description of the Morning (1708). His political Works included The Virtues of Sid Hamlet the Magician's rod (1710) The Fable of Midas (1711) History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (1758).

His most famous tale,
 * __Gulliver's Travel__**